1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (below) include time-matched plots of SPC Storm Reports that were produced by a number of supercell thunderstorms that developed and moved across the Deep South and Mid-South on 25 March 2021. The highest concentration of tornadoes occurred in Alabama, including one that was responsible for multiple fatalities... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Air Mass RGB images (above) showed the darker shades of red associated with dry and ozone-rich air within a lowered tropopause near the core of an upper-level low moving eastward across Oklahoma on 17 March 2021. One sequence of the Air Mass RGB images includes RAP40 model pressure contours of the PV1.5... Read More

When NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center issues a High Risk of severe weather (below), people sit up and take notice. Are there easily accessible tools to monitor the state of the atmosphere in/around a region of expected severe weather?The toggle above shows products (early in the morning on 17 March — at 439 AM CDT) in RealEarth... Read More

As an anomalously-deep middle-tropospheric low migrated eastward over the Southwest US, severe thunderstorms developed ahead of a surface low and its associated cold front (surface analyses) as they moved from New Mexico into Texas on 13 March 2021 — as shown in 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) (above) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 um) images (below). According... Read More