{"id":12757,"date":"2013-04-23T23:58:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T23:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=12757"},"modified":"2013-04-26T22:37:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T22:37:05","slug":"hail-producing-thunderstorm-at-kandahar-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/12757","title":{"rendered":"Hail-producing thunderstorm at Kandahar, Afghanistan"},"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\/2013\/04\/130423_met7_vis_kandahar_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"EUMETSAT Meteosat-7 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)\" alt=\"EUMETSAT Meteosat-7 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/04\/130423_MET7_VIS_KANDAHAR_05.GIF\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">EUMETSAT Meteosat-7 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A thunderstorm produced golf-ball-size hail that reportedly lasted up to 30 minutes at Kandahar, Afghanistan on <strong>23 April 2013<\/strong>. This hail was responsible for 3 fatalities, and damaged dozens of US and British military helicopters and aircraft stationed at Kandahar International Airport. McIDAS images of EUMETSAT Meteosat-7 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images <em><strong>(above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> and 11.5 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images <em><strong>(below; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed the rapid development of the relatively compact thunderstorm as it passed over Kandahar\u00c2\u00a0International Airport <em>(denoted by the &#8220;*&#8221; symbol)<\/em>. Shadow-casting overshooting tops were evident on the visible imagery, and the cloud-top IR brightness temperature cooled to -66 C<em> (dark red color enhancement)<\/em> at 08:30 UTC.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/04\/130423_met7_ir_kandahar_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"EUMETSAT Meteosat-7 11.5 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images (click image to play animation)\" alt=\"EUMETSAT Meteosat-7 11.5 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/04\/130423_MET7_IR_KANDAHAR_05.GIF\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">EUMETSAT Meteosat-7 11.5 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thunderstorm produced golf-ball-size hail that reportedly lasted up to 30 minutes at Kandahar, Afghanistan on 23 April 2013. This hail was responsible for 3 fatalities, and damaged dozens of US and British military helicopters and aircraft stationed at Kandahar International Airport. McIDAS images of EUMETSAT Meteosat-7 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (above; click image [&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":[23,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meteosat","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12757","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=12757"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12761,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12757\/revisions\/12761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}