1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) included time-matched (+/- 3 minutes) plots of SPC Storm Reports — which showed severe thunderstorms that moved eastward and southeastward across parts of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas on 19 September 2023.1-minute GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (below) indicated that the coldest pulsing overshooting tops associated many of the... Read More

Northeastern Minnesota, northwestern Wisconsin and the adjacent waters of Lake Superior experienced severe weather late on 5 September 2023. The animation below shows the strong convection moving over western Lake Superior. GOES-16 Mesoscale Sector 1 imagery from 2300-2359 UTC shows numerous convective towers bubbling up and collapsing. Storm Reports from SPC include a... Read More

A George Strait concert at an outdoor stadium (Nissan Stadium) in Nashville, Tennessee was cancelled by a forced evacuation — due to approaching thunderstorms — just before 10 PM local time on 29 July 2023 (0300 UTC on 30 July). GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed (1) the dissipation... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed the development of thunderstorms across much of the eastern portion of Interior Alaska on 24 July 2023. The large satellite viewing angle — which is 73.5 degrees for Fairbanks (station identifier PAFA) — provided an oblique perspective that nicely displayed the vertical buildup... Read More