AWIPS images of GOES-13 10.7 µm IR data (above; click image to play animation) showed a large line of severe thunderstorms that moved eastward across the middle Mississippi River Valley region during the evening of 22 April 2011. This storm produced a significant number of large hail, damaging wind, and tornado reports (including one that did damage to... Read More

The remnants of Hurricane Ike moved rapidly northeastward across the Ohio River Valley region on 14 September 2008. AWIPS images of the GOES-12 visible channel (above) with an overlay of METAR surface reports showed that a large number of locations reported very... Read More

Hurricane Ike (satellite montage) made landfall as a Category 2 storm during the early hours of 13 September 2008. The comparison of GOES-12 and GOES-13 10.7 µm IR images (above)... Read More

GOES-11 continued in Super Rapid Scan Operations (SRSO) mode on 11 September 2008, with visible imagery (above) showing additional convective bursts around the eye of the storm.GOES-12 water vapor channel imagery (below) revealed an interesting series of middle- to upper-tropospheric “gravity waves”... Read More