Record heat was experienced across parts of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandle regions and southwestern Kansas on 26 June 2011 — all-time record high temperatures in Texas included 117ºF at Childress (record tied), 113ºF at Borger, 111ºF at Amarillo, and 110ºF at Dalhart; in Oklahoma, 113ºF at Gage; and in Kansas 110ºF... Read More

McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) revealed numerous pyrocumulus clouds and large areas of very dense smoke associated with the “Honey Prairie Fire” in the Okefenokee Swamp area of southeastern Georgia on 20 June... Read More

AWIPS images of POES AVHRR 10.8 µm IR data (above) showed a thunderstorm that was moving off the Georgia/Florida coast during the pre-dawn hours on 17 June 2011. Rapidly-warming cloud top IR brightness temperatures indicated that this thunderstorm was quickly dying.A POES AVHRR false color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) image at 12:36 UTC (below)... Read More

AWIPS images of 4-km resolution GOES-13 10.7 µm IR data (above) showed an area of collapsing convection (exhibiting rapidly warming cloud top IR brightness temperatures) moving northeastward across far southern Kansas on 09 June 2010. Downdrafts within this collapsing convection led to a... Read More