A significant outbreak of tornadoes occurred across Oklahoma and Kansas during the afternoon and evening hours on 03 May 1999 — and hail as large as 4.50 inches in diameter was reported in parts of Texas and Oklahoma (Storm Reports). NWS damage surveys indicated that widespread F4 and F5 tornado damage occurred. NOAA GOES-8... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed thunderstorms that produced giant hail (as large as 5.00 inches in diameter) and damaging wind gusts (as high as 106 mph) across the Texas Panhandle and North Texas (SPC Storm Reports) on 29 April 2025. The Infrared images revealed pulses of... Read More
Continuing this blog’s recent theme of discussing recent events in West Texas, a tornadic supercell has formed near Muleshoe, Texas, in the panhandle region near the Texas / New Mexico border. Both CONUS and mesoscale sector scans from GOES-19 well-captured the initiation and further development of this storm.The late morning surface analysis (1500 UTC,... Read More
SPC Storm reports for 1200 UTC 22 April – 1200 UTC 23 April 2025 (here) included an observation of very strong winds at the Midland Airport as shown below. (See also this link).What did the satellite imagery for this storm show? GOES-16 CONUS visible imagery, below, shows the evolution of the thunderstorm responsible... Read More
