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Category: Severe convection

Tornado in Maryland

* GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing *An isolated thunderstorm that was moving eastward across Maryland just after Midnight on 24 July 2017 intensified as it crossed Chesapeake Bay, eventually producing a waterspout which moved onshore near Bay City (just southwest of Stevensville/Bay Bridge Airport,... Read More

Midwest derecho

* GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing * A long-lived mesoscale convective system (MCS) known as a derecho produced swath of damaging winds — as well as some large hail and a couple of tornadoes — that stretched from north-central South Dakota to... Read More

GOES-16 ABI Mesoscale Sector imagery and GLM data with strong thunderstorms over Wisconsin

GOES-16 ABI and GLM data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testingStrong morning thunderstorms with a few severe weather reports, and abundant heavy rain (24-h totals ending 1200 UTC on 12 July 2017, from here), spread over the northern part of the GOES-16 default western Mesoscale Sector on the morning of 12 July 2017. The animation above shows the GOES-16 Advanced... Read More