A GOES-16 Mesoscale Sector produced 1-minute imagery as a strong thunderstorm complex approached Washington DC late in the afternoon/early evening of 14 May 2018.  The (150-megabyte (!!)) animated gif above shows overshooting tops quickly developing and decaying as the complex moved over the Potomac Basin.  Winds in excess of 60... Read More

A Thunderstorm complex moved through eastern CO into western Kansas on 14 May 2018, producing 2 to 3 inch hail in Kit Carson and Cheyenne Counties in east-central Colorado and in Wallace County in northwest Kansas (SPC Storm Reports). Visible animation (0.64 µm) from GOES-16, above, shows the storms initiating near metropolitan Denver before moving... Read More

A large pyroCumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud developed from the Mallard Fire in the Texas Panhandle on 11 May 2018, aided by warm temperatures and strong winds ahead of an approaching dryline (surface analyses).  1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed the large thermal... Read More

Severe weather (SPC | NWS ARX | NWS MKX) occurred across far southern Wisconsin on the afternoon of 09 May 2018, as a surface low moved eastward across the area. 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) provided a view of the isolated thunderstorm that rapidly developed in... Read More