{"id":23527,"date":"2017-03-20T23:59:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T23:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=23527"},"modified":"2017-03-23T22:27:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T22:27:14","slug":"goes-16-mesoscale-sector-visible-images-hail-producing-thunderstorms-in-illinois-and-indiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/23527","title":{"rendered":"GOES-16 Mesoscale Sector visible images: severe thunderstorms in Illinois\/Indiana, and Tennessee\/Georgia\/South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/03\/170320_goes16_visible_IL_IN_spc_hail_reports_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/03\/960x1280_GOES16FL_B2_GOES16_VIS_IL_IN_HAIL_20MAR2017_2017079_173028_0001PANEL.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images, with SPC storm reports of hail size [click to play MP4 animation]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images, with SPC storm reports of hail size [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div><em>** The GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational data and are undergoing testing. **<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1-minute interval 0.5-km resolution GOES-16 Visible (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/education\/docs\/ABI-bands-FS\/ABI%20Fact%20Sheet%20Band%202.pdf\"><strong>0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images <em><strong>(above; <\/strong>also available as a 130 Mbyte<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/03\/170320_goes16_visible_IL_IN_spc_hail_reports_anim.gif\">animated GIF<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em> showed a cluster of thunderstorms that moved southeastward across Illinois and Indiana, producing a swath of hail as large as 2.75 inches in diameter (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/climo\/reports\/170320_rpts.html\"><strong>SPC storm reports<\/strong><\/a>) on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20170320.html\"><strong>20 March 2017<\/strong><\/a>. The shadowing and textured signature of overshooting tops could be seen in the vicinity of many of the hail reports<em> (hail sizes, red, are plotted in 1\/100th of an inch; 275 = 2.75 inches).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20170321.html\"><strong>21 March<\/strong><\/a>, a larger-scale outbreak of wind and hail-producing thunderstorms developed which primarily impacted parts of Tennessee, Georgia and South Carolina. Trees falling on homes were responsible for injuries and a fatality in Georgia, and hail as large as 3.0 inches occurred in South Carolina (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/climo\/reports\/170321_rpts.html\"><strong>SPC storm reports<\/strong><\/a>). As discussed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/satelliteliaisonblog.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/21\/goes-16-30-sec-imagery\/\"><strong>Satellite Liaison Blog<\/strong><\/a>, the co-location of both <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/23225\"><strong>Mesoscale Sectors<\/strong><\/a> provided images at 30-second intervals &#8212; GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images<em><strong> (below;<\/strong> also available as a 168 Mbyte<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/03\/170321_goes16_visible_spc_storm_reports_TN_GA_SC_anim.gif\">animated GIF<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em> again displayed very detailed cloud-top structure which included overshooting tops and gravity waves.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/03\/170321_goes16_visible_spc_storm_reports_TN_GA_SC_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/03\/960x1280_GOES16FL_B2_GOES16_VIS_TN_GA_SC_HAIL_WIND_21MAR2017_2017080_231259_0001PANEL.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images, with SPC storm reports of hail (red) and wind damage (cyan) [click to play MP4 animation]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images, with SPC storm reports of hail (red) and wind damage (cyan) [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>** The GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational data and are undergoing testing. ** 1-minute interval 0.5-km resolution GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images (above; also available as a 130 Mbyte animated GIF) showed a cluster of thunderstorms that moved southeastward across Illinois and Indiana, producing a swath of hail as large as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":23529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23527","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=23527"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23539,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23527\/revisions\/23539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}