GOES-14 remained in Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (SRSO-R) mode on 25 May 2015, providing 1-minute 0.63 µm visible channel imagery of severe thunderstorms that produced widespread damaging winds, large hail, and tornadoes (SPC storm reports) across much of Texas (above; also available as an MP4 movie file). One fatality and four... Read More
GOES-14 remained in Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (SRSO-R) demonstration mode on 21 May 2015, providing 1-minute images for much of the eastern US (see this blog post) — and another interesting feature was seen over eastern Tennessee that was rather perplexing. Since this easily qualified for the “What the... Read More
GOES-14 0.62 µm visible imagery, above, (here as an mp4, and here as a very large (220+ megabytes) animated gif) shows the development of convection over eastern North Carolina in a region of slight risk according to SPC (below). ==================================================================================Mesoscale Discussion #713 from SPC, below, referenced the Super-Rapid scan imagery:MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0713 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN... Read More
Thunderstorms began to develop across West Texas during the afternoon hours on 19 May 2015, along and ahead of an eastward-moving dryline. One of the storms went on to produce a few brief tornadoes, and hail as large as 3.0 inches in diameter (SPC storm reports). Different views of this storm were provided by... Read More
