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Category: GOES-16

Severe thunderstorms across the Southern Plains

1-minute GOES-16 (GOES-East) Mesoscale Domain Sector “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) included time-matched (+/- 3 minutes) plots of SPC Storm Reports — which showed severe thunderstorms that moved east-northeastward across parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas on 26 February 2023. The hazy signature of blowing dust was apparent along the New Mexico / Texas border region, along and ahead... Read More

Tehuano gap wind event

True Color RGB mages — created using Geo2Grid — from GOES-18 (GOES-West), GOES-17 and GOES-16 (GOES-East) (above) displayed the hazy signature of blowing dust associated with a Tehuano wind event, which was spreading south-southwestward from the Gulf of Tehuantepec across the Pacific Ocean on 18 February 2023. A narrow rope cloud... Read More

Wind feature off the mouth of the Rio Grande

Sentinel-1A SAR data just before sunrise captured a very narrow region of enhanced winds just south of the Rio Grande delta on 18 February 2023, as shown above in a toggle with the 1226 UTC GOES-16 Band 13 Clean Window infrared (10.3 µm) imagery. There appears to be no obvious... Read More