1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed thunderstorms that produced several tornadoes, hail up to 4.00 inches in diameter, wind gusts to 81 mph and heavy rainfall (SPC Storm Reports) across northeast Colorado, northwest Kansas and southwest Nebraska on 10 May 2023.1-minute GOES-16 Infrared images (below) include an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density — most of... Read More

IntenseStormNet is a part of the ProbSevere portfolio; it relates ABI Channels 2 (0.64 µm) and 13 (10.3 µm) and GLM observations of Flash Extent Density (see this past blog post for more information) to the likelihood that a given satellite-detected storm is severe. (The probabilities are created from output of a Convolutional Neural... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB images (above) showed convection which developed just off the Lower Michigan coast in southeastern Lake Michigan — where warmer water temperatures existed — on 17 October 2022. As this convection moved inland across southwestern Lower Michigan and northern Indiana it produced a swath of rainfall and snowfall.The GOES-16 Day Cloud Phase Distinction... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Visible/Infrared Sandwich RGB images from 1300-1800 UTC (above) included plots of 1-hour surface precipitation amounts — and showed clusters of thunderstorms moving across North Texas and the greater Dallas/Fort Worth area early in the day on 22 August 2022. These storms were focused along a quasi-stationary surface front... Read More