1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) include time-matched (+/- 3 minutes) plots of SPC Storm Reports, and showed thunderstorms that produced tornadoes and damaging winds across southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana on 24 January 2023. One tornado caused EF3 damage in the Houston, Texas area. This severe convection... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images with an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density (above) covered part of a widespread winter storm event — which included thundersnow in parts of Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota and Minnesota — that occurred on 03 January 2023. Areas that reported thundersnow experienced convectively-enhanced snowfall rates... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) include an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density — which showed rapidly-cooling cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures (and intermittent lightning) over the eastern half of  Lake Erie, associated with the initial impulse of lake effect snow (LES) immediately downwind of the lake... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB images (above) showed the compact exposed low-level circulation of Tropical Invest 94L as it moved northward away from Bermuda (station identifier TXKF) on 25 October 2022. In spite of Invest 94L moving through an environment of increasing deep-layer wind shear,... Read More