Strong convection moving eastward from Florida and across the Bahamas produced at least two tornadoes on the island of Grand Bahama on 29 March 2010 — according to media reports, there were fatalities at the Grand Bahama Container Port located at the western end of the island, where several large cranes were toppled.... Read More
After an unusually quiet February tornado-wise in the United States (only one tornado was reported, an EF-0 in California that lasted for 3 minutes late in the day on February 27th), two tornadoes touched down near sunset in western Oklahoma, near the town of Hammon. The above animation from NAWIPS shows 1-km GOES-12 visible imagery with superimposed contours of cloud-top cooling (and lightning strikes) from about 2000 UTC on 9 March to 0015... Read More
McIDAS images of the 4-km resolution GOES-11 10.7 µm IR channel data (above) showed the development of convection that moved onshore across southern California during the afternoon hours on 19 January 2010. Of particular interest is the strong convective cluster that developed just offshore over the Santa Catalina and San Clemente Island... Read More
McIDAS images of the GOES-10 10.7 µm IR channel (above) showed very cold cloud top temperatures associated with a large Mesoscale Convective Complex (MCC) that developed over northern Argentina and moved across Uruguay and into far southern Brazil on 19 November 2009. The MCC exhibited unusually cold IR brightness temperature... Read More
