Category: Severe convection
Fatal tornado at Eagle Pass, Texas
Severe convection developed ahead of a frontal boundary that was moving southward across the Rio Grande Valley late in the day on 24 April 2007. GOES-12 was in Rapid Scan Operations,... Read More
Severe weather outbreak in the Plains
A major outbreak of severe convection developed across the southern and central Plains states during the day on 28 March and 29 March 2007; large and long-lived thunderstorms produced widespread tornadoes (including fatal tornadoes in Texas and Oklahoma, and the first tornado-related fatality in Colorado since 1960), large hail (up to 4.5 inches... Read More
Multiple “enhanced-v” signatures in New Mexico and Texas/Oklahoma
Widespread severe convection developed during the day on 23 March 2007 over parts of New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Colorado. AWIPS imagery of the MODIS and GOES InfraRed (IR) and water vapor channels (above) indicates that six of these storms located... Read More