A cluster of thunderstorms developed over the interior of Alaska during the afternoon hours on 04 June 2012, and moved westward across the region — one of the stronger storms produced half-inch size hail in the Fairbanks area. AWIPS images of 375-meter resolution (projected onto a 1-km resolution AWIPS grid)... Read More

A large Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) developed over far northeastern Oklahoma during the pre-dawn hours on 04 June 2012, which eventually produced a Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV) that moved into northwestern Arkansas the following morning. AWIPS images of 4-km resolution GOES-13 10.7 µm... Read More

On 30 May 2012, the Whitewater-Baldy Fire complex was declared to be the largest fire on record for the state of New Mexico, having burned over 170,000 acres. On the previous day (29 May), GOES-13 0.63 µm visible... Read More

A sequence of four AWIPS images of 1-km resolution MODIS 0.65 µm visible channel data during the 25 May – 28 May 2012 period (above) showed the various stages of development of Subtropical/Tropical Storm Beryl as it slowly intensified over the far western... Read More