{"id":28407,"date":"2018-06-05T23:59:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T23:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=28407"},"modified":"2018-06-07T13:09:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T13:09:20","slug":"mesoscale-convective-system-over-the-northern-plains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/28407","title":{"rendered":"Mesoscale convective system over the Northern Plains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/180605_goes16_infrared_spc_storm_reports_N_Plains_mcs_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/G16_IR_N_PLAINS_MCS_05JUN2018_960x1280_B13_2018157_044231_0001PANEL_00069.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-16 \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window <em>(10.3 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with plots of SPC storm reports [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band13.pdf\"><strong>10.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images<em><strong> (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed showed the development of thunderstorms over the northern Plains late in the evening on 05 June 2018 &#8212; these storm clusters exhibited upscale growth and merged into a large Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) over North Dakota and South Dakota during the overnight hours. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/climo\/reports\/180605_rpts.html\"><strong>SPC storm reports<\/strong><\/a> are plotted on the images, parallax-corrected to be at a location corresponding to cloud-top features at a mean elevation of 10 km; notable reports included wind gusts of 100 mph in South Dakota, 71 mph in North Dakota, and 67 mph in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>A 1-km resolution Terra MODIS Infrared Window (11.0 \u00b5m) is shown below, with with plots of SPC storm reports that occurred within +\/- 1 hour of the image. The coldest storm-top infrared brightness temperatures on the image were -77\u00baC in eastern North Dakota and central South Dakota.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 649px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/180606_0445utc_terra_modis_infrared_spc_storm_reports_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/180606_0445utc_terra_modis_infrared_spc_storm_reports_anim.gif\" alt=\"Terra MODIS Infrared Window (11.0 \u00b5m) image, with SPC storm reports [click to enlarge]\" width=\"639\" height=\"447\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terra MODIS Infrared Window<em> (11.0 \u00b5m)<\/em> image, with SPC storm reports [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-16 (GOES-East) &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images (above) showed showed the development of thunderstorms over the northern Plains late in the evening on 05 June 2018 &#8212; these storm clusters exhibited upscale growth and merged into a large Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) over North Dakota and South Dakota during the overnight hours. SPC storm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":28416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,12,3,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-modis","category-severe-convection","category-terra"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28407","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=28407"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28413,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28407\/revisions\/28413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}