{"id":24206,"date":"2017-06-17T14:59:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T14:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=24206"},"modified":"2017-06-19T23:46:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T23:46:37","slug":"large-mcs-affects-nebraska-iowa-kansas-and-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/24206","title":{"rendered":"Large MCS affects Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images, with plots of SPC storm reports [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>** GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational data and are undergoing testing **<\/em><\/p>\n

A large Mesoscale Convective System (MCS)\u00a0 developed over eastern Nebraska late in the day on 16 June 2017<\/strong><\/a>, which continued\u00a0 to grow in size as it\u00a0 propagated southeastward\u00a0 and produced severe weather across western Iowa, northeastern Kansas\u00a0 and northwestern Missouri during\u00a0 the subsequent overnight hours (SPC storm reports<\/strong><\/a>). GOES-16 Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (above)<\/strong><\/em> include plots of time-matched\u00a0 SPC storm reports;\u00a0 the report locations are parallax<\/strong><\/a>-corrected to match those of the cloud tops. The strong winds downed\u00a0 numerous trees and power lines;\u00a0 Kansas City Power & Light reported\u00a0 that as many as 93,000 customers — more than 10 percent — were without power within the utility’s service area (which covers 46 counties in Kansas and Missouri).<\/p>\n

In a comparison of Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images at\u00a0 0721 UTC or 2:21 am local time on 17 June (below),<\/strong> the Day\/Night Band image showed a bright cluster of lightning streaks (cloud tops illuminated by intense lightning activity) straddling the Kansas\/Missouri border. Note how the city lights of the Kansas City area were almost completely attenuated by the dense and vertically thick MCS core, while a diffuse signature of city lights was seen through the thin cirrus canopy around the edges of the storm. Packets of cloud-top gravity waves evident on both images, and the coldest cloud-top Infrared brightness temperatures were -85\u00ba\u00a0 C (darker violet color enhancement),<\/em> located in both Kansas and Missouri.<\/p>\n

\"Suomi<\/a>

Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11..45 \u00b5m) images, with cumulative plots of SPC storm reports [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

** GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational data and are undergoing testing ** A large Mesoscale Convective System (MCS)\u00a0 developed over eastern Nebraska late in the day on 16 June 2017, which continued\u00a0 to grow in size as it\u00a0 propagated southeastward\u00a0 and produced severe weather across western Iowa, northeastern Kansas\u00a0 and northwestern […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":24216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,3,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-severe-convection","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24206","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=24206"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24223,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24206\/revisions\/24223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}