An Embraer 175L took off from Tampa shortly before 1900 UTC on 20 July 2022. About an hour into the smooth flight (as shown here, i.e., around 1945-1950 UTC), turbulence injured about 7 passengers that resulted in a diversion to Birmingham AL (news article; Here is the flight path). The animation... Read More

GOES-18 images in this blog post are preliminary and non-operational Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided GOES-18 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images at 30-second intervals (above), which include time-matched SPC Storm Reports. This imagery showed widespread thunderstorms that moved eastward across Montana on 09 July 2022, which produced damaging straight-line winds as strong as 78... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) include time-matched SPC Storm Reports — and showed a large Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) that moved southeastward across the Northern Plains on 05 July 2022. This MCS produced damaging straight-line winds as strong as 99 mph and hail as large as 4.00 inches in South Dakota — in fact, with... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) include time-matched SPC Storm Reports — and showed the development severe thunderstorms across parts of Iowa, Wisconsin and Upper Michigan during the afternoon and early evening hours on 15 June 2022. Boundary layer feeder band clouds could be seen flowing north-northeastward into some of the growing thunderstorms —... Read More