The visible and infrared bands from GOES-6 observed the historic (31 May 1985) tornado outbreak over Pennsylvania and other parts of the Northeast. For the IR band, the coldest cloud-top temperatures are highlighted with colors. Here’s is a visible animation a bit more zoomed in.A GOES-6 visible loop, starting at... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images with time-matched plots of SPC Storm Reports (above) showed the development of thunderstorms that produced tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds in parts of southwestern Oklahoma and far northern Texas on 22 May 2020. Of particular note was the 5.33-inch diameter hail that fell in Burkburnett, Texas... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images with time-matched SPC Storm Reports (above) showed widespread thunderstorms that moved northward across the High Plains during the afternoon and evening hours on 20 May 2020. There were Above-Anvil Cirrus Plumes associated with many of these severe storms (VISIT training).The corresponding GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images are shown... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images with plots of time-matched SPC Storm Reports (above) showed back-building thunderstorms that propagated southwestward across Oklahoma on 15 May 2020.The corresponding GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (below) revealed pulsing overshooting tops that occasionally exhibited cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures as cold as -80ºC (violet pixels) toward... Read More