Mesoscale Convective System along the Gulf Coast region
A large Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) developed ahead of a slow-moving cold front and moved over the Gulf Coast region of the US on 29 April – 30... Read More
Category: POES
Blowing dust in the central Plains, and a severe weather outbreak in the southern Plains and Lower Mississippi River Valley regions
A Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) image visualized using the SSEC RealEarth web map server (above) showed large areas of blowing dust across parts of the central Plains states on the afternoon of 27 April 2014.... Read More
Grassland fires in Kansas
Numerous grassland fires began to burn across parts of eastern Kansas (and also extreme northeastern Oklahoma) during the afternoon hours on 11 April 2014. AWIPS images of 4-km resolution GOES-13 3.9 µm shortwave IR channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed... Read More
Convectively-generated mesospheric airglow waves over Texas
AWIPS images of 4-km resolution GOES-13 (GOES-East) 10.7 µm IR channel images with overlays of cloud-to-ground lightning strikes and surface frontal positions (above; click image to play animation) showed the explosive development of a thunderstorm just ahead of a cold frontal boundary that was moving southeastward across... Read More
