1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Visible/Infrared Sandwich RGB images (above) showed thunderstorms that produced a few clusters of large hail (up to 3.00 inches in diameter: SPC Storm Reports) in the St. Louis, Missouri area on 13 May 2023.There were also several reports of heavy rainfall — GOES-16 Visible/Infrared Sandwich RGB images at 1956 UTC UTC, 2100 UTC and 2124 UTC... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed thunderstorms that produced several tornadoes, hail up to 4.50 inches in diameter and wind gusts to 73 mph (SPC Storm Reports) in addition to heavy rainfall across parts of central and eastern Nebraska (NWS Omaha summary) on 12 May 2023.Pulsing thunderstorm overshooting tops exhibited infrared brightness... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed thunderstorms that produced several tornadoes, hail up to 4.00 inches in diameter, wind gusts to 81 mph and heavy rainfall (SPC Storm Reports) across northeast Colorado, northwest Kansas and southwest Nebraska on 10 May 2023.1-minute GOES-16 Infrared images (below) include an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density — most of... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed an isolated supercell thunderstorm that produced a few tornadoes and hail as large as 4.00″ in diameter (SPC Storm Reports) across northern Missouri late in the day on 06 May 2023. Pulses of overshooting tops exhibited infrared brightness temperatures of -70ºC or colder (brighter... Read More
