{"id":24603,"date":"2017-07-26T23:57:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T23:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=24603"},"modified":"2017-07-31T03:07:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T03:07:58","slug":"1-week-of-upper-midwest-mcs-activity-a-goes-16-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/24603","title":{"rendered":"1 week of Upper Midwest MCS activity: a GOES-16 overview"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>\n

* GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing *<\/em><\/p>\n

During the week of 19 July<\/strong><\/em><\/a> – 26 July 2017<\/strong><\/a>, the Upper Midwest was affected\u00a0 by a number of strong to severe Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) events, as shown in an animation of GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (above)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of that time period, a derecho moved across the region on 19 July producing widespread damaging winds, large hail and a few tornadoes (blog post<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n

Following the derecho, a separate outbreak of thunderstorms exhibited well-defined “enhanced-V” storm top signatures in western Wisconsin (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) image [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Another MCS produced tornadoes and damaging winds across eastern Iowa and northern Illinois on 21 July (SPC storm reports<\/strong><\/a>) — at one point a storm in northern Illinois exhibited a seldom-seen “warm trench” surrounding an overshooting top (below<\/strong><\/em>).<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) image [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Early in the day on 23 July, “transverse banding” — a signature indicating the likelihood of high-altitude turbulence — was seen around the northern periphery of an MCS that was centered in southern Illinois (below<\/strong><\/em>).<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) image [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A pattern of mesoscale banding was displayed by thunderstorms that produced localized 1-2″ amounts of rainfall across southern Wisconsin on 26 July (below<\/strong><\/em>).<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) image [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Also noteworthy was the swath of very heavy rainfall during this 1-week period across eastern Iowa, far southwestern Wisconsin and northern Illinois (below),<\/strong><\/em> which was responsible for flash flooding in those areas.<\/p>\n

\"7-day<\/a>

7-day total precipitation, departure from normal and percent of normal [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  * GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing * During the week of 19 July – 26 July 2017, the Upper Midwest was affected\u00a0 by a number of strong to severe Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) events, as shown in an animation of GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":24605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,74,16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation","category-goes-16","category-heavy-rain-flooding","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24603","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=24603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24607,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24603\/revisions\/24607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}