A strong winter storm produced a swath of winter weather from Arkansas through lower Michigan on 23-24 February. GOES-14 SRSO-R Imagery was centered on the occluded storm on 24 February, and the water vapor animation, above (available here as an animated gif image), shows strong flow north-northwest from the Mid-Atlantic states into the Upper Midwest,... Read More
A severe hail-producing thunderstorm moved over northeast Nebraska before noon on 22 September (SPC Storm Reports). The region hit was just south of a Marginal Risk of Severe Weather (The update at 1630 UTC included the region of severe weather). The GOES-13 visible animation, above, shows the initial development occurring along a subtle cloud line aligned mostly east-west.The NOAA/CIMSS ProbSevere model produces... Read More
A tornado was reported near Yuma, CO, (SPC Storm Reports) at 1910 UTC on 27 May 2015. GOES-14 was in SRSO-R scanning mode, and a storm-centered animation of the visible imagery (0.626 µm) is shown above (Warning: the animation above is 270M; click here for an mp4, or view it on YouTube). Note that GOES-14 produces... Read More
GOES-14, in SRSO-R mode, animation, above (YouTube video), captured the development of an isolated cell over northeastern Andrews County in west Texas. Intersecting boundaries helped force the isolated convection, above, that was strong enough to produce a signal in the NOAA/CIMSS ProbSevere product, with ProbSevere peaking at around 15%. ... Read More
