{"id":26809,"date":"2018-01-22T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=26809"},"modified":"2018-01-24T17:20:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T17:20:43","slug":"mid-latitude-cyclone-in-the-central-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/26809","title":{"rendered":"Mid-latitude cyclone in the central US"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOES-16<\/a>

5-minute GOES-16 Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with hourly precipitation type plotted in yellow [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>A large mid-latitude cyclone intensified over the central US on 22 January 2018<\/strong><\/a>, producing a wide variety of weather — in the cold sector, heavy snow and blizzard conditions across the Plains and Upper Midwest (WPC storm summary<\/strong><\/a>), and in the warm sector, severe weather (tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds: SPC storm reports<\/strong><\/a>) from Mississippi to Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the large size of the storm circulation, which included a well-defined Warm Conveyor Belt (WCB) and a Trough of Warm Air Aloft (TROWAL<\/strong><\/a>) as identified here<\/strong><\/a>. More information on conveyor belts and TROWALs is available here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

A GOES-16 Mesoscale Sector<\/strong><\/a> provided 1-minute imagery over the Upper Midwest — “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed some of the convective elements surrounding the surface low<\/strong><\/a> as it reached its occluded stage over Iowa. A small cluster of thunderstorms also developed over central Illinois around 19 UTC, producing 1.0-inch diameter hail.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

1-minute GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with hourly precipitation type plotted in yellow [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>Taking a\u00a0 closer look at the eastern portion of the previous satellite scene, there was an overlap between the M1 and M2 Mesoscale Sectors — this allowed for images at 30-second intervals (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"30-second<\/a>

30-second GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with hourly precipitation type plotted in yellow [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A large mid-latitude cyclone intensified over the central US on 22 January 2018, producing a wide variety of weather — in the cold sector, heavy snow and blizzard conditions across the Plains and Upper Midwest (WPC storm summary), and in the warm sector, severe weather (tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds: SPC storm reports) from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":26815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-severe-convection","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26809","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=26809"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26830,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26809\/revisions\/26830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}