{"id":25366,"date":"2017-09-20T22:22:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T22:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=25366"},"modified":"2017-09-21T12:15:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T12:15:42","slug":"convective-development-over-the-upper-midwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/25366","title":{"rendered":"Convective Development over the Upper Midwest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GOES-16 Derived Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE), 1702-2137 UTC on 20 September 2017 (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n

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

GOES-16 Data are used to create many Baseline Products that can be used to monitor and anticipate weather.\u00a0 The animation above shows the GOES-16 Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE).\u00a0 Values increased by about 50-75% in a corridor from southern Wisconsin southwestward to Missouri over the course of four hours as shown in the loop.\u00a0 CAPE varies over Illinois, with a minimum extending from Chicago southwestward, with larger values to the east and to the west.\u00a0 The CAPE developed in a region where the Storm Prediction Center<\/a> had a slight risk of severe weather.<\/a> A Mesoscale Discussion for the region<\/a> was also issued. Hail up to two inches in diameter was reported in central Wisconsin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Baseline Stability Products are Clear-Sky<\/i> only products. (They are also available online here<\/a>, albeit delayed.) Because they are Clear-Sky products, they are most useful for monitoring the pre-convective environment.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) Imagery, 1702-2137 UTC on 20 September 2017 (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n

Visible Imagery (0.64 \u00b5m) for the same period as the CAPE animation, above, shows the development of convection along a front moving into Wisconsin<\/a>. Note also the lack of cumulus development in the CAPE minimum over Illinois.\u00a0 The large CAPE values over southwestern Missouri were not tapped, as convection did not trigger there.<\/p>\n

(Added: Click here<\/a> to see a Band 13 “Clean Window” Infrared (10.3 \u00b5m) animation from GOES-16, from 2302 UTC on 20 September to 0652 UTC on 21 September.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing GOES-16 Data are used to create many Baseline Products that can be used to monitor and anticipate weather.\u00a0 The animation above shows the GOES-16 Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE).\u00a0 Values increased by about 50-75% in a corridor from southern Wisconsin southwestward […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":25368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-convective-initiation","category-goes-16"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25366","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25366"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25378,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25366\/revisions\/25378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}