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Category: ProbSevere

LightningCast Probability and a GLM lightning jump preceding a Tornado Warning issued by NWS Los Angeles

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above), with and without an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density, showed convection moving onshore in Southern California during the late morning hours on 24 February 2023 — which prompted NWS Los Angeles to issue a Tornado Warning at 1807... Read More

ProbSevere LightningCast Probabilities for Guam

At the request of the National Weather Service forecast office in Guam (where the National Weather Service’s day begins), CIMSS is computing a small region of LightningCast Probabilities that uses Himawari-8 data. The Guam forecast office issues a lightning ‘advisory’ if lightning is possible or occurring within 20 mi of... Read More

Tornado in metropolitan DC

GOES-16 infrared (above) and visible (below) imagery late in the afternoon of 5 July 2022 show the development of convection in between Baltimore and the District of Columbia. Tornadoes occurred in both Prince George County, just east and north of the District of Columbia, and over Anne Arundel county, just... Read More