Severe thunderstorms developed during the afternoon hours over eastern Colorado on 06 June 2012, which were responsible for a number of tornadoes in addition to widespread large hail and damaging winds (SPC storm reports). An AWIPS image of 1-km... Read More

AWIPS images of the 4-km resolution GOES-13 11-3.9 µm brightness temperature difference (BTD) or “legacy fog/stratus product” (above; click image to play animation) began to display a signal of increasing coverage of fog and/or stratus across parts of the Allegheny Plateau region of New York and Pennsylvania during the pre-dawn... Read More

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