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Severe thunderstorms produce tornadoes, giant hail and damaging winds across parts of Texas and Oklahoma

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed supercell thunderstorms that produced tornadoes, hail as large as 4.25″ in diameter and wind gusts as high as 100 mph (SPC Storm Reports) across parts of Texas and Oklahoma on 08 June 2025. Frequent pulses of overshooting tops were apparent with these thunderstorms.In the corresponding 1-minute... Read More

Blowing dust prompts the issuance of the first Dust Storm Warning on record for the Chicago metro area

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) daytime True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed blowing dust (shades of tan) — lofted by strong southerly thunderstorm outflow winds with gusts as high as 60-70 mph — as it moved northward across northeastern Illinois and northwestern Indiana (and eventually southern Lake Michigan... Read More