{"id":25616,"date":"2017-10-07T23:58:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T23:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=25616"},"modified":"2017-10-09T03:08:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T03:08:04","slug":"hurricane-nate-makes-landfall-in-far-southeastern-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/25616","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Nate makes landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m. left) and Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m, right) images, with hourly surface reports plotted in yellow [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>* GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing *<\/em><\/p>\n

1-minute interval Mesoscale Sector<\/a><\/strong> GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/a><\/strong>) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m<\/a><\/strong>) images (above)<\/em><\/strong> showed the large central dense overcast (which exhibited cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures of -80\u00baC and colder, violet colors, and at times -90\u00baC and colder, yellow enhancement<\/a><\/strong>) and subsequent smaller convective bursts associated with Hurricane Nate<\/a><\/strong> on 07 October 2017<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

After having moved north-northwestward at speeds up to 24 mph — quite possibly the fastest-moving tropical cyclone on record in the Gulf of Mexico — Nate made its initial landfall (as a Category 1 storm) in Louisiana near the mouth of the Mississippi River at 00 UTC<\/a><\/strong> on 08 October 2017 [note: Nate’s second landfall was around 0530 UTC<\/a><\/strong> near Biloxi, Mississippi]. A few reports of damaging winds and tornadoes<\/a><\/strong> were noted ahead of and during Nate’s landfall; a listing of other wind gusts can be seen here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, DMSP-17 SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz) imagery was hinting at the development of a closed eye structure beneath the central dense overcast seen on GOES-13 Infrared Window (10.7 \u00b5m) imagery (below)<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 Infrared Window (10.7 \u00b5m) and DMSP-17 SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz) images around 1215 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Even though Nate passed over very warm water in the Gulf of Mexico (below),<\/em><\/strong> the fast forward motion of the storm limited its ability to take advantage of those warm waters and rapidly intensify.<\/p>\n

\"Sea<\/a>

Sea Surface Temperature and Ocean Heat Content analyses from 06 October, with an overlay of the 07 October path of Hurricane Nate ending at 12 UTC [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 * 1-minute interval Mesoscale Sector GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images (above) showed the large central dense overcast (which exhibited cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures of -80\u00baC and colder, violet colors, and at times -90\u00baC and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":25661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,11,74,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dmsp","category-goes-13","category-goes-16","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25616","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=25616"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25620,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25616\/revisions\/25620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}