GOES-14 operations in SRSOR mode deliver the ability to monitor convective development at very short time-scales. A good example of this occurred over the lower Ohio Valley/western Kentucky on May 22nd. The animation of GOES-13 Sounder Derived Product Imagery of CAPE (above) and of Lifted Index (1300 and 1700 UTC) showed considerable... Read More

 AWIPS images of 1-km resolution GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel images with automated overshooting top detection icons (above; click image to play animation) showed the development of a large mesoscale convective system across northwestern Kansas during the afternoon hours on 05 August 2013.... Read More

AWIPS images of 1-km resolution GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed an undular bore marking a surface-based convective outflow boundary which formed over southwestern Nebraska early in the day on 31 July 2013 — this outflow... Read More

Satellite descriptors of the atmosphere over the central High Plains on May 30th suggested an atmosphere ripe for convection. For example, the GOES Sounder DPI Lifted Index showed an axis of instability from central Oklahoma to northwest Kansas, with widespread values (yellows, reds, purples) at or below -4. (The unstable... Read More