{"id":13620,"date":"2013-08-06T23:59:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T23:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=13620"},"modified":"2013-08-07T05:56:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T05:56:22","slug":"strong-storm-in-the-gulf-of-alaska-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/13620","title":{"rendered":"Strong storm in the Gulf of Alaska"},"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\/08\/130806_g15_wv_AK_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GOES-15 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel images (click image to play animation)\" alt=\"GOES-15 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel images (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/08\/130806_G15_WV_AK_078.GIF\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-15 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>McIDAS images of 4-km resolution GOES-15 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel data <em><strong>(above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed the complex pattern of intensification of a storm over the western Gulf of Alaska on 06 August 2013. According to the NOAA NWS <a title=\"Ocean Prediction Center\" href=\"http:\/\/www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov\/\"><strong>Ocean Prediction Center<\/strong><\/a>, this was the first cyclone to produce storm-force winds <em>(greater than 47 knots)<\/em> over the North Pacific Ocean since 21 June 2013.<\/p>\n<p>AWIPS images of 1-km resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel and 0.64 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data with an overlay of the corresponding surface analysis <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the cloud features associated with the storm system at 23:14 UTC.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/08\/130806_2314z_suomi_npp_viirs_ir_vis_sfc_analysis_AK_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR and 0.64 \u00c2\u00b5m visible images (with surface analysis)\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR and 0.64 \u00c2\u00b5m visible images (with surface analysis)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/08\/130806_2314z_suomi_npp_viirs_ir_vis_sfc_analysis_AK_anim.gif\" width=\"479\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR and 0.64 \u00c2\u00b5m visible images (with surface analysis)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McIDAS images of 4-km resolution GOES-15 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the complex pattern of intensification of a storm over the western Gulf of Alaska on 06 August 2013. According to the NOAA NWS Ocean Prediction Center, this was the first cyclone to produce storm-force winds (greater [&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":[43,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-15","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13620","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=13620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13621,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13620\/revisions\/13621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}