1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images along with 5-minute Fire Power and Fire Temperature products (above) displayed the smoke plume and thermal signature of a grassland fire that rapidly intensified and spread across parts of western Beaver County (located in the Oklahoma Panhandle) on... Read More

SPC Storm Reports from 5 April 2022 note a Tornado hit Allendale SC shortly before 2000 UTC. The animation above shows the ProbSevere (version 2 — available online here) display prior to and just after the tornado. NOAA/CIMSS ProbSevere identifies and tracks the radar feature associated with this tornadic storm. ProbSevere is designed to give... Read More

Probability of Moderate or Greater (MOG) Turbulence is a Machine-Learning product that uses satellite imagery (Band 13 — the clean window infrared channel at 10.3 µm — over the GOES-West domain; GOES-16 Probabilities use both Band 13 and the upper-level water vapor imagery — Band 8 at 6.19 µm; training... Read More