{"id":10106,"date":"2012-03-30T22:24:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T22:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=10106"},"modified":"2012-03-30T22:25:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T22:25:39","slug":"mesoscale-convective-vortex-mcv-over-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/10106","title":{"rendered":"Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV) over Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/03\/120330_g13_vis_mcv_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/03\/120330_G13_VIS_MCV_11.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data <em><strong>(above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> revealed the cyclonic circulation of a Mesoscale Convective\u00c2\u00a0 Vortex (MCV) that was moving northeastward across Mississippi on <strong>30 March 2012<\/strong>. This MCV appeared to play a role in helping to initiate new convective cells ahead of it as the atmosphere destabilized during the late morning and early afternoon hours.<\/p>\n<p>AWIPS images of GOES-13 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images <em><strong>(below; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> helped to identify the apparent origin of the MCV &#8212; a large mesoscale convective system that developed along the Texas coast after about 15 UTC on the previous day (29 March).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/03\/120329-30_g13_ir_mcv_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"GOES-13 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/03\/US_IR_Sat_20120329_1640.png\" alt=\"GOES-13 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images (click image to play animation)\" width=\"479\" height=\"385\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-13 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A closer look at the parent mesoscale convective system using a 1-km resolution MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR image with overlays of cloud-to-ground lightning strikes <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed that the storm was producing a large number of lightning strikes. The coldest MODIS cloud top IR brightness temperatures were -70 C <em>(darker black color enhancement)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/03\/120329_modis_ltg_TX_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel image + Cloud-to-ground lightning strikes\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/03\/120329_modis_ltg_TX_anim.gif\" alt=\"MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel image + Cloud-to-ground lightning strikes\" width=\"480\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel image + Cloud-to-ground lightning strikes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) revealed the cyclonic circulation of a Mesoscale Convective\u00c2\u00a0 Vortex (MCV) that was moving northeastward across Mississippi on 30 March 2012. This MCV appeared to play a role in helping to initiate new convective cells ahead of it as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,30,12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-13","category-lightning","category-modis","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10108,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10106\/revisions\/10108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}