{"id":16608,"date":"2014-09-02T13:48:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T13:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=16608"},"modified":"2014-09-02T17:53:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T17:53:33","slug":"tropical-storm-dolly-in-the-southern-gulf-of-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/16608","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Dolly in the southern Gulf of Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Suomi<\/a>

Suomi NPP VIIRS Day Night Band (0.70 \u00b5m) image (click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n

Tropical Storm Dolly has formed in the western Gulf of Mexico. The Suomi NPP VIIRS Day Night Band imagery, above, shows the exposed low-level swirl of the storm (then still a tropical depression). North-northwesterly shear (shown here<\/a>, from this site<\/a>) means the deep convection (shown below) is displaced to the east of south of the the low-level circulation (click here<\/a> for a toggle between the Day Night Band and the 11.45\u00b5m imagery). Cloud-top IR brightness temperatures from VIIRS were as cold as -87\u00ba C. ASCAT winds from 0230 UTC<\/a> show a region of tropical storm-force winds associated with convection east and north of the circulation center.<\/p>\n

\"Suomi<\/a>

Suomi NPP VIIRS Infrared (11.45 \u00b5m) image (click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n

Early-morning visible imagery from GOES-13, below, shows the large area of convection over the southern Gulf. The NHC-reported positions of the storm at 0900 UTC and 1500 UTC (22.6\u00ba N, 94.8\u00ba W and 23.4\u00ba N, 96.5\u00ba, respectively) are indicated by the red boxes on the images. Strong convection just south of the surface circulation developed at sunrise, obscuring the low-level swirl. That strong convection is especially apparent in the GOES-13 10.7 imagery, at bottom. GOES IR Brightness Temperatures were as cold as -84\u00ba C in the animation. (For more on Dolly from the National Hurricane Center<\/a>, see this link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 Visible Imagery (0.63 \u00b5m) (click to animate)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 Infrared Imagery (10.7 \u00b5m) (click to animate)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tropical Storm Dolly has formed in the western Gulf of Mexico. The Suomi NPP VIIRS Day Night Band imagery, above, shows the exposed low-level swirl of the storm (then still a tropical depression). North-northwesterly shear (shown here, from this site) means the deep convection (shown below) is displaced to the east of south of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":16616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,58,25,49,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-13","category-metop","category-satellite-winds","category-suomi_npp","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16608","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16608"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16631,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16608\/revisions\/16631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}