At 10:00 UTC on 23 May, GOES-14 imagery started flowing to AWIPS as the GOES-East satellite (as seen in the comparison between the 09:30 and 10:10 UTC IR images above). Work continues on evaluating the status of GOES-13. GOES-14 remains in geostationary orbit at 105.5 West longitude, and GVAR data... Read More
GOES-13 suffered an anomaly overnight: the satellite is no longer pointed towards the Earth for as yet unknown reasons. The anomaly started at 03:40 UTC on 22 May, and at 04:29 UTC, GOES-15 (GOES-West) began a 30-minute full disk scan schedule.Successive images from just before the anomaly (above), at nominal... Read More
A devastating tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma just after 20:00 UTC or 3:00 PM local time on 20 May 2013, causing extensive (EF4 to EF5) damage and at least 24 fatalities. McIDAS images of GOES-15 (GOES-West) and GOES-13 (GOES-East) 0.63 µm visible channel data... Read More
A comparison of AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 1.61 µm “snow/ice discrimination channel” data from 19 May and 20 May 2013 (above) revealed the areal extent of flooding along the Yukon River upstream of the Fort Yukon (station identifier PFYU) area in northeastern Alaska. Both ice... Read More
