Severe convection developed in the warm sector of a cyclone that was moving through the mid-Mississippi River Valley region, producing widespread reports of heavy rain, damaging winds, hail, and tornadoes on the evening of 03 April 2008 (SPC storm reports | NWS Little Rock AR report). An AWIPS image of the MODIS 11.0µm IR channel (above) shows the... Read More

Lee-side frontal gravity waves are occasionally seen to the east of the Rocky Mountains, moving southward across the High Plains of the central US (for example, see  03 April 2007,... Read More