1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) include time-matched plots of Local Storm Reports — which showed thunderstorms that produced several tornadoes, hail to 4.00 inches in diameter and wind gusts to 70 mph (SPC Storm Reports) along with some heavy rainfall and flooding across much of Indiana (and parts of adjacent... Read More
As also discussed in this blog post, large hail injured as many as 90 people at a Red Rocks outdoor concert in Colorado just after local sunset on 21 June 2023. 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (with/without an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density) from GOES-16 (GOES-East) (above) and GOES-18 (GOES-West) (below) showed the east-northeastward motion... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) with/without an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density (above) showed the development of a thunderstorm that produced the fatal EF3-rated tornado that moved through Perryton, Texas (located about 4 miles southwest of airport identifier KPYX) from 2206-2217 UTC on 15 June 2023. A modest amount of lightning activity was associated... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images (above) showed the diurnal variability of thermal anomalies (hot pixels) associated with a cluster of wildfires in southern Quebec during the 02 June – 04 June 2023 period. On the first of these 3 days, several of the wind-driven fires exhibited 3.9 µm brightness temperatures of 137.71ºC... Read More
