{"id":16676,"date":"2014-09-17T23:59:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T23:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=16676"},"modified":"2014-09-21T17:15:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T17:15:16","slug":"goes-cloud-top-cooling-rate-product-used-for-spc-mesoscale-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/16676","title":{"rendered":"GOES Cloud Top Cooling Rate product used for SPC Mesoscale Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Storm<\/a>

Storm Prediction Center Mesoscale Discussion #1724<\/p><\/div>\n

Using the GOES-R<\/strong><\/a> Cloud Top Cooling Rate<\/strong><\/a> product (applied to GOES-13 data),<\/em> the Storm Prediction Center issued a Mesoscale Discussion<\/strong><\/a> (above)<\/strong><\/em> highlighting the risk of strong thunderstorms producing hail and\/or strong wind gusts over parts of the Georgia\/South Carolina border region on 17 September 2014<\/strong><\/a>. According to the SPC storm reports<\/strong><\/a>, there was hail up to 1.0 inch in diameter in addition to some tree and power line damage in southern South Carolina.<\/p>\n

AWIPS II image combinations of the Cloud Top Cooling (CTC) rate product (colors)<\/em> and the GOES-13 10.7 \u00b5m IR channel gray-scale images\u00a0 (below; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed that CTC rate values for the storm north of Augusta, Georgia (KAGS) at 19:00 UTC<\/strong><\/a> were as high as -16\u00ba C per 15 minutes; at 19:15 UTC, the CTC rate value for that storm was as high as -39\u00ba C per 15 minutes. The first Severe Thunderstorm Warning for this storm was later issued at 19:34 UTC<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Cloud<\/a>

Cloud Top Cooling Rate (colors) and GOES-13 10.7 \u00b5m IR (grayscale) images [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>GOES-13 10.7 \u00b5m IR channel images (below; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed the rapidly cooling cloud-top IR brightness temperatures associated with these thunderstorms as they moved southeastward and intensified: the coldest value for the aforementioned thunderstorm was -40\u00ba C at 19:00 UTC, dropping to -62\u00ba C by 20:45 UTC.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 10.7 \u00b5m IR channel images [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>About an hour later, another Severe Thunderstorm Warning was issued at 20:30 UTC<\/strong><\/a> for a storm near and south of Orangeburg, South Carolina (KOGB).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Using the GOES-R Cloud Top Cooling Rate product (applied to GOES-13 data), the Storm Prediction Center issued a Mesoscale Discussion (above) highlighting the risk of strong thunderstorms producing hail and\/or strong wind gusts over parts of the Georgia\/South Carolina border region on 17 September 2014. According to the SPC storm reports, there was hail up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":16678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,52,11,34,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awips-ii","category-cloud-top-cooling","category-goes-13","category-goes-r","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16676","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=16676"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16692,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16676\/revisions\/16692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}