{"id":24609,"date":"2017-07-31T13:50:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T13:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=24609"},"modified":"2017-08-01T02:35:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T02:35:54","slug":"tropical-storm-emily-forms-in-the-eastern-gulf-of-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/24609","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Emily forms in the eastern Gulf of Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24610\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/07\/G16VIS-20170731_1102_1327anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24610\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/07\/G16VIS-20170731_132718.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"439\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24610\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) Imagery from 1102-1327 UTC on 31 July 2017 (Click to animate)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tropical Storm Emily has formed in the eastern Gulf of Mexico on 31 July 2017, just to the west of Tampa\/St. Petersburg, Florida. Its presence is possibly related to <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/07\/sfc073117_071002.gif\">the surface front<\/a> that has sagged south into Florida over the weekend.\u00a0 (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/07\/SST_FromCIMSS.png\">Sea Surface Temperatures in the area are very warm as well<\/a>.) In the Visible <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/education\/docs\/ABI-bands-FS\/ABI%20Fact%20Sheet%20Band%202.pdf\">(0.64 \u00b5m<\/a>) animation above (a slower animation is available <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/07\/G16VIS-20170731_1102_1327slowanim.gif\">here<\/a>), the curved bands of the low-level cloud field are noticeable just northwest of the large convective cluster near Tampa Bay.\u00a0 Clean Window (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/education\/docs\/ABI-bands-FS\/ABI_Band_13_FS_CLEAN_LW_IR_FINAL.pdf\">10.3 \u00b5m<\/a>) Infrared Imagery shows that offshore convection waned between 1100 and 1300 UTC, shifting to a location just south of Tampa.\u00a0 (Click<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/07\/G16CleanWindow_1102_1327slowanim.gif\"> here<\/a> for a slower animation)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24614\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/07\/G16CleanWindow_1102_1327anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24614\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/07\/G16CleanWindow-20170731_132718.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"439\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Clean Window Infrared (10.33 \u00b5m) Imagery from 1102-1327 UTC on 31 July 2017 (Click to animate)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>About an hour after Emily made landfall, a toggle between Terra MODIS Visible (0.65 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.0 \u00b5m) images, below, showed the compact cluster of deep convection &#8212; cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures were as cold as -74\u00ba C just off the Florida coast.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/07\/170731_1543utc_terra_modis_Visible_InfraredWindow_TS_Emily_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/07\/170731_1543utc_terra_modis_Visible_InfraredWindow_TS_Emily_anim.gif\" alt=\"Terra MODIS Visible (0.65 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.0 \u00b5m) images (Click to enlarge)\" width=\"640\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terra MODIS Visible (0.65 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.0 \u00b5m) images (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For more information on Emily, refer to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/\">National Hurricane Center website<\/a>, or to the <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/\">CIMSS Tropical Weather Pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing Tropical Storm Emily has formed in the eastern Gulf of Mexico on 31 July 2017, just to the west of Tampa\/St. Petersburg, Florida. 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