Upper Midwest Severe Thunderstorm Outbreak
An outbreak of severe thunderstorms developed across the Upper Midwest states on 07 June 2007 — SPC storm reports showed widespread tornadoes (including the EF-3 Langlade WI... Read More
An outbreak of severe thunderstorms developed across the Upper Midwest states on 07 June 2007 — SPC storm reports showed widespread tornadoes (including the EF-3 Langlade WI... Read More
GOES-12 visible channel images (above) revealed numerous aircraft dissipation trails — otherwise known as “distrails” or “hole punch clouds” — during the day over eastern Texas, northern Louisiana, southern Arkansas, and Mississippi on 29 January 2007. Corresponding GOES-12 10.7... Read More
AWIPS MODIS water vapor channel imagery (above) shows a well-defined (but cloud-free) variant of a “Foehn gap” over central Colorado on 04 January 2007. This Foehn gap was oriented roughly north-south, just to the lee of the highest terrain of the Front Range of the Rocky... Read More
AWIPS MODIS imagery revealed widespread condensation trails (or “contrails”) from commercial aircraft flying across the southeastern US on 29 November 2006. These contrails were best seen using the Band 26 (1.3µm) near-IR channel (above) and the Band 27 (6.7µm) water vapor... Read More