{"id":16468,"date":"2014-08-18T21:09:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T21:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=16468"},"modified":"2014-08-19T21:11:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T21:11:34","slug":"goes-14-srsor-mesoscale-convective-vortex-in-the-southern-mississippi-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/16468","title":{"rendered":"GOES-14 SRSOR: Mesoscale Convective Vortex in the Southern Mississippi Valley"},"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\/2014\/08\/140818_goes14_visible_mcv_MS_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/08\/140818_G14_VIS_SRSOR_MCV_MS_226.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-14 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images (click to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-14 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The GOES-14 satellite was in Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (<a title=\"Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (SRSOR)\" href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/srsor2014\/GOES-14_SRSOR.html\"><strong>SRSOR<\/strong><\/a>) mode providing 1-minute imagery over the eastern US on <a title=\"18 August 2014 daily weather map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20140818.html\"><strong>18 August 2014<\/strong><\/a>. From the late morning into the afternoon hours, 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images<em><strong> (above; click image to play animation; also available as an <a title=\"MP4 movie file\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/08\/140818_goes14_visible_mcv_MS_anim.mp4\">MP4 movie file<\/a><\/strong><\/em> <em><strong>or a<\/strong> <a title=\"YouTube video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mlR__UBOAGI\"><strong>YouTube video<\/strong><\/a><strong>)<\/strong><\/em> revealed a large and well-defined mesoscale convective vortex (MCV) propagating eastward across northern Mississippi. This MCV was spawned from a thunderstorm which rapidly developed over far southwestern Arkansas during the preceding nighttime hours (beginning around 06:15 UTC: <a title=\"GOES-13 IR images\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/08\/140818_goes13_ir_AR_trw_anim.gif\"><strong>GOES-13 IR images<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>A comparison of Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 \u00b5m IR channel images <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the rapid growth of the parent thunderstorm from 07:18 UTC to 08:59 UTC. The coldest cloud-top IR brightness temperatures were -80\u00ba C.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/08\/140818_suomi_npp_viirs_ir_AR_trw_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/08\/140818_suomi_npp_viirs_ir_AR_trw_anim.gif\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 \u00b5m IR channel images\" width=\"480\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 \u00b5m IR channel images<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GOES-14 satellite was in Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (SRSOR) mode providing 1-minute imagery over the eastern US on 18 August 2014. From the late morning into the afternoon hours, 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images (above; click image to play animation; also available as an MP4 movie file or a YouTube video) revealed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":16481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,40,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-13","category-goes-14","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16468","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=16468"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16493,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16468\/revisions\/16493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}