Continuing this blog’s recent theme of discussing recent events in West Texas, a tornadic supercell has formed near Muleshoe, Texas, in the panhandle region near the Texas / New Mexico border. Both CONUS and mesoscale sector scans from GOES-19 well-captured the initiation and further development of this storm.The late morning surface analysis (1500 UTC,... Read More
A large severe weather outbreak took place across the south central United States on Wednesday 2 April 2025. The NWS Storm Prediction Center (SPC) anticipated a significant weather event in the region, having predicted an enhanced risk of severe weather as early as Monday 31 March and a rare high risk the night before the event.... 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
The North Texas panhandle is experiencing severe weather on October 4, 2023. Animation 1 shows Radar reflectivity in tight areas of convection across the panhandle. The GOES Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB shown in Animation 2 confirms convection, showing overshooting tops becoming wispy ice clouds (appearing orange in the RGB).An enhanced risk of convection... Read More
