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<\/a>Himawari-8 0.64 \u00b5m Visible (top) and 10.4 \u00b5m Infrared Window (bottom) images [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>Himawari-8 AHI Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the east-southeastward propagation of a mesoscale convective system which produced a deadly tornado in Yancheng, China around 2:30 pm local time on 23 June 2016 (Weather Underground blog<\/strong><\/a>). The location of Yancheng (33\u00b023?N, 120\u00b07?E) is denoted by the cyan *<\/strong> symbol, and the animation briefly pauses on the 0630 UTC images which match the reported time of the tornado. Overshooting tops are evident on the visible imagery, and cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures of -80\u00ba C or colder (violet color<\/em> enhancement)<\/em> also appear, even after the storm crossed the coast and moved over the adjacent offshore waters of the Yellow Sea (note: due to parallax<\/strong><\/a>, the apparent location of the storm top features is displaced several miles to the north-northwest of their actual position above the surface). The spatial resolutions (0.5 km visible, 2 km infrared)<\/em> of the AHI<\/strong><\/a> images are identical to those of the corresponding spectral bands that will be available from the ABI<\/strong><\/a> instrument on GOES-R<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n An experimental version of the MIMIC<\/strong><\/a> Total Precipitable Water product which uses the MIRS<\/strong><\/a> retrieval TPW from POES, Metop, and Suomi NPP VIIRS satellites (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed the band of high moisture pooled along the Mei-yu front, which appeared to surge northward across eastern China early in the day on 23 June.<\/p>\n