GOES-16 Clean Window infrared imagery (Band 13, 10.3 µm), above, shows a convective line moving into Louisiana around sunrise on 10 April 2024. SPC Storm Reports (below, and here), show tornadoes over extreme southwest Louisiana at around 1130 UTC on 10 April 2024 (Note the peak wind of 55 knots at the Lake Charles LA airport at 1136 UTC, within... Read More
The 3-4 April 1974 Super Outbreak (NWS Wilmington OH | Wikipedia | StoryMap | Interacive WebMap | Monthly Weather Review) was one of the largest and most deadly tornado outbreaks on record in the United States. The University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center (UW/SSEC) recently digitized over 66,000 Applications Technology Satellite (ATS)-1 and... Read More
Morning convection on 2 April caused a swath of wind damage across (mostly northern) Kentucky, as shown in the Storm Reports below (from the SPC Website). The animation above shows the GOES-16 Clean Window Infrared (Band 13, 10.3 µm) imagery from to 1421. The strong convection shows includes cold cloud tops that last... Read More
It’s spring time on the Great Plains, which means strong dynamical systems that often bring blizzards as well as severe thunderstorms. A long-wave trough with an embedded 850-500mb jet streak created cyclogenesis in western Oklahoma and southwest Kansas on March 13, with associated low-level moisture return into eastern Kansas.The strong... Read More
