While much of Kansas was under a “Particularly Dangerous Situation” Severe Thunderstorm Watch, 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Visible/Infrared Sandwich RGB images (above) showed thunderstorms that produced tornadoes, large hail (to 3.00 inches in diameter) and damaging winds (gusts of 90-100 mph) (SPC Storm Reports) across parts of Kansas on 19 May 2024. Some flash flooding was also reported, with water covering portions of... Read More

Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided 30-second interval GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) — which showed thunderstorms that produced two EF1-rated tornadoes as well as damaging winds (resulting in some fatalities) across the Houston area (SPC Storm Reports) on 16 May 2024. Widespread structural damage occurred in downtown Houston — and there were also... Read More

5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Ash RGB images (above) showed a pulse of blowing dust — lofted by thunderstorm outflow winds gusting as high as 70 kt (81 mph) — that was moving southward across West Texas late in the day on 16 May 2024. This dust reduced surface visibility to 1-1/4 mi... Read More

5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) images of the Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) derived product (above) showed very high AOD values of 1.0-1.8 over the Gulf of Mexico on 14 May 2024 — associated with dense smoke from ongoing seasonal burning activity in parts of Mexico and Central America. This smoke had been... Read More