GOES-16 Clean Window (10.3 µm) infrared imagery, above (click to animate) shows two regions of convection over the southern Plains, one moving through central/southern Oklahoma, one developing over the Texas Panhandle and moving east). A similar (but slightly later) animation of GOES-16 Low-Level water vapor infrared imagery (7.34 µm) is... Read More
A thunderstorm over Jackson County, Oregon late in the day on 5 April 2020 produced abundant hail that accumulated to depths in excess of an inch over a wide swath of the county. Visible animation from 1500 UTC on 5 April through 0300 UTC on 6 April show the region experiencing plentiful... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES- 16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed widespread events of severe weather (SPC Storm Reports) associated with a large occluding low pressure system and its frontal boundaries on 28 March 2020.The corresponding GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images are shown below. The coldest cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures were in the... Read More
A long-track tornado moved through Nashville (north Nashville to Lockeland Springs then towards Lebanon) early in the morning on 3 March 2020. (ProbSevere for this event is also discussed in this blog post; A GLM View of the storm is here) The Band13 mp4 animation, above (Click here for an animated gif), from... Read More
