Social media lit up on 4 July 2026 with video of a strong rotating condensation funnel from Cantwell, Alaska, on the southern edge of the Alaska Range. You can see the video in this news story from KTUU-TV in Anchorage. This funnel was seen around 5 PM local time, or... Read More

5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Infrared Window images (above) included plots of SPC Storm Reports — which showed severe thunderstorms that grew into a Mesoscale Convective System which produced wind gusts as high as 131 mph, hail as large as 2.75 inches in diameter and a few tornadoes from northwestern Nebraska to... Read More

In the afternoon and evening of 17 June 2026, a series of tornadoes struck the states of Illinois and Indiana. As of the writing of this post (1600 UTC on 18 June) the SPC Storm Reports only indicate tornadoes in Illinois, but remotely-sensed observations indicate that the likelihood of a... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible and Infrared Window images (above) included time-matched plots of SPC Storm Reports — which showed supercell thunderstorms that produced several tornadoes, hail as large as 2.50″ in diameter and wind gusts as high as 85 mph across parts of northern/central Illinois and far northwestern Indiana on 11 June 2026.... Read More