An outbreak of severe weather occurred across parts of the Mid-South, Ohio Valley and mid Mississippi Valley on 03 April 2018. A GOES-16 Mesoscale Sector provided images at 1-minute intervals — “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (below) include plots of SPC storm reports.Looking farther to the southwest over parts... Read More

A cold front moving southward along the western Great Plains showed a distinct signature in GOES-16 Water Vapor Imagery.  The hourly animation above, with surface observations, shows the front in the Low-Level Water Vapor passing over stations where winds shift from westerly and southwesterly to strong northerly.  The feature is far... Read More