1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) include time-matched plots of SPC Storm Reports — and showed severe thunderstorms moving eastward across parts of New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts on 13 November 2021. These storms developed along and just ahead of a cold front (surface analyses), the position of which was highlighted by an “arc cloud”... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) include time-matched plots of SPC Storm Reports — and showed severe thunderstorms movng eastward across Missouri and Illinois during the late afternoon and early evening hours on 24 October 2021. Most of these storms were developing along and ahead of an advancing cold front (surface analyses), and they produced several tornadoes including a... Read More

1–minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) include time-matched plots of SPC Storm Reports produced by supercell thunderstorms that moved eastward across Oklahoma and Texas late in the day on 10 October 2021. These storms developed along and ahead of a strong cold front — and in Texas the... Read More

An EF-3 tornado moved through the southwest Wisconsin town of Boscobel, in Grant County, late in the afternoon of 7 August 2021 (Preliminary Storm Summary from WFO ARX). The tornado was on the ground from 4:29 to 4:56 PM CDT, or 2129 – 2156 UTC. How did the ABI imagery and GLM data change over... Read More