{"id":18625,"date":"2015-06-05T16:43:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T16:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=18625"},"modified":"2015-07-02T14:23:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T14:23:18","slug":"tornadic-thunderstorm-over-eastern-colorado-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/18625","title":{"rendered":"Tornadic Thunderstorm over eastern Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/06\/GOES14_CO_2345UTC_4JUNE2015annotate.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/06\/GOES14_CO_2345UTC_4JUNE2015annotate.gif\" alt=\"GOES-14 Visible 0.6263 \u00b5m Visible imagery over Colorado, 2345 UTC 5 June 2015.  See text for details (Click to enlarge)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>GOES-14 Visible 0.6263 \u00b5m Visible imagery over Colorado, 2345 UTC 5 June 2015.  See text for details<\/strong> (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\">Storm Prediction Center<\/a> in Norman OK had the Plains of northeast Colorado and adjacent States in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/outlook\/archive\/2015\/day1otlk_20150604_1630.html\">Slight Risk (or higher)<\/a> threat of severe weather on 4 June 2015.  The visible image, above, shows a tornado-producing severe thunderstorm over Elbert County that produced a long-lived tornado, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/climo\/reports\/150604_rpts.html\">SPC Storm Reports<\/a>.  The reported start and end points of the tornado (and observed times) are indicated as well.  Elbert (farther northeast) and El Paso (farther southwest) counties are outlined.<\/p>\n<p>The evolution of the tornadic cell was captured while GOES-14 was operating in <a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/srsor2015\/GOES-14_SRSOR.html\">SRSO-R mode<\/a>.  An animated gif of the evolution from 1915 UTC 4 June through 0130 UTC on 5 June is (warning:  190M animation!) <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/06\/GOES14_CO_4JUNE1915_5JUNE20150130_VISanim.gif\">here<\/a>.  A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yy4NOgsYdDc\">YouTube video<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/06\/GOES14_CO_4JUNE1915_5JUNE20150130_VISanim.mp4\">mp4<\/a> is below.  Note that the tornado formed along the obvious moisture boundary made visible by the arc of cumulus clouds south and east of the severe storm.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/goesrhwt.blogspot.com\/2015\/06\/seeing-between-sfc-obs-with-lap-cape.html\">This post<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/hwt.nssl.noaa.gov\/\">Hazardous Weather Testbed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/goesrhwt.blogspot.com\/\">blog<\/a> shows the moisture gradient as a gradient in CAPE) One-minute imagery allows an extraordinarily detailed look at features in the very dynamic cloud-top;  overshooting tops develop and decay very quickly as the storm develops and matures.  An animation of 10.7\u00b5m imagery from 2100 UTC through 0600 UTC on 5 June is available on YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_HNIqBREAz8\">here<\/a>.  Click <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/06\/GOES14_CO_SC_4-5JUNE2015_VISanim.gif\">here (180M gif)<\/a> for a storm-centered animated gif of the tornadic storm (Also available as an <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/06\/GOES14_CO_SC_4-5JUNE2015_VISanim.mp4\">mp4<\/a> and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_-0mBQs8VfQ\">YouTube<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"90%\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yy4NOgsYdDc?version=3&#038;loop=1&#038;playlist=yy4NOgsYdDc\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Storm Prediction Center in Norman OK had the Plains of northeast Colorado and adjacent States in a Slight Risk (or higher) threat of severe weather on 4 June 2015. The visible image, above, shows a tornado-producing severe thunderstorm over Elbert County that produced a long-lived tornado, according to the SPC Storm Reports. The reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":18636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,3,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-14","category-severe-convection","category-youtube"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18625","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=18625"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18637,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18625\/revisions\/18637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}