A cluster of thunderstorms developed over extreme northeastern Iowa and extreme southeastern Minnesota, and merged into a large Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) across southern Wisconsin during the early hours of 19 June 2009. AWIPS images of the 4-km resolution GOES-12 10.7 µm IR channel (above) displayed the rapid growth of this MCS,... Read More

A well-defined “enhanced-v” storm top signature was seen on MODIS 11.0 µm IR window image (above) over Nebraska around 08:09 UTC (3:09 am local time) on 13 May 2009. The magnitude of the cold/warm cloud top temperature couplet was rather large (-72º... Read More

An unusually-large derecho event formed over Kansas during the pre-dawn hours on 08 May 2009, and then moved rapidly eastward across Missouri and Illinois during the morning hours. GOES-12 10.7 µm IR window images (above) showed the large areal coverage of cold... Read More

Water vapor imagery from the GOES-11, GOES-12, and GOES-13 satellites (above) showed the spin-up of a well-defined “stratospheric intrusion vortex” over western Kansas on 14 March 2009. The imagery from each of those 3 satellites is displayed in its native projection, which... Read More