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Category: GOES-19

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

Smoke Plume across Canada

True-Color imagery and GOES-R Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) imagery from early on 5 June 2025 (the imagery was captured from the CSPP Geosphere site) from GOES-West, above, and GOES-East, below, shows the a smoke plume emanating from fires in western Canada and spreading over all of southern Canada. The smoke has occasionally... Read More