A convective system over Texas spawned a Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV) during the day on 2 June, as shown in the 1.5-day loop above (color-enhanced GOES-13 11-micron imagery shown every 12 hours). The convection along the dryline at 0615 UTC on 2 June evolved into the MCV shown at 1815... Read More

Due to lightning causing a radar outage, and with strong thunderstorms capable of producing heavy rainfall in the area, the National Weather Service Forecast Office in San Juan, Puerto Rico requested that GOES-13 be placed into Super Rapid Scan Operations (SRSO) mode... Read More