{"id":2719,"date":"2009-06-15T23:59:33","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T23:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=2719"},"modified":"2009-06-16T04:18:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T04:18:12","slug":"severe-thunderstorm-in-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/2719","title":{"rendered":"Severe thunderstorm in Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/06\/090615_noaa15_vis_ir_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NOAA-15 visible and 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/06\/090615_noaa15_vis_ir_anim.gif\" title=\"NOAA-15 visible and 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA-15 visible and 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A large severe thunderstorm that was developing in southern Kansas during the afternoon hours on <strong>15 June 2009<\/strong> had a very nice satellite presentation on NOAA-15 visible and 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR imagery <strong><em>(above)<\/em><\/strong>. A &#8220;warm trench&#8221; signature appeared to be surrounding the cluster of coldest  pixels associated with the strongest overshooting top  located to the northeast of Dodge City, Kansas <em>(station identifier KDDC)<\/em>. Around the time of these images, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/climo\/reports\/090615_rpts.html\">SPC storm reports<\/a><\/strong> included a tornado, hail of 1.75 inch in diameter, and wind gusts to 60 mph just to the east of Dodge City.<\/p>\n<p>A comparison of the 1-km resolution NOAA-15 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR and the 4-km resolution GOES-12 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR data <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong> showed that the coldest cloud top IR brightness temperature was <strong>-86\u00c2\u00ba C<\/strong> on the NOAA-15 image <em>(versus <strong>-73\u00c2\u00ba C<\/strong> on the corresponding GOES-12 image)<\/em>. In addition, a significant parallax shift was seen on the GOES-12 image, due to the large viewing angle of the geostationary satellite &#8212; image features were located several miles to the north-northwest on the GOES-12 image.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/06\/090615_g12_n15_ir_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NOAA-15 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m and GOES-12 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/06\/090615_g12_n15_ir_anim.gif\" title=\"NOAA-15 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m and GOES-12 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA-15 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m and GOES-12 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large severe thunderstorm that was developing in southern Kansas during the afternoon hours on 15 June 2009 had a very nice satellite presentation on NOAA-15 visible and 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR imagery (above). A &#8220;warm trench&#8221; signature appeared to be surrounding the cluster of coldest pixels associated with the strongest overshooting top located to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,19,26,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avhrr","category-goes-12","category-poes","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719","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=2719"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2728,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions\/2728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}