Category: POES
Fatal tornado at Eagle Pass, Texas
Severe convection developed ahead of a frontal boundary that was moving southward across the Rio Grande Valley late in the day on 24 April 2007. GOES-12 was in Rapid Scan Operations,... Read More
Hail damage to Space Shuttle external fuel tanks
An isolated thunderstorm developed over east-central Florida and moved over the Kennedy Space Center during the late afternoon on 26 February 2007, producing golf ball size hail (2.0 inches in diameter) and wind gusts as high as 72 mph (SPC storm reports). This hail produced damage to the external fuel tanks of the Space... Read More
Cold air in northwestern Canada
A very cold arctic air mass had been building over central Alaska and northwestern Canada during the latter half of November 2006 (surface air temperatures colder than -40 F/-40 C have been reported daily over that region since 21 November). A NOAA-15 AVHRR 10.8µm “IR window channel” image centered... Read More