{"id":28672,"date":"2018-06-25T23:57:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T23:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=28672"},"modified":"2018-06-28T00:19:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T00:19:49","slug":"severe-thunderstorms-in-the-southeast-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/28672","title":{"rendered":"Severe thunderstorms in the Southeast US"},"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\/180625_goes16_infrared_spc_storm_reports_Southeast_US_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_SEUS_SVR_25JUN2018_960x1280_B13_2018176_213026_0001PANEL_00301.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 SPC storm reports plotted in cyan [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 the development of thunderstorms which produced small hail and widespread damaging winds (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/climo\/reports\/180625_rpts.html\"><strong>SPC storm reports<\/strong><\/a>) across the Southeast US on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20180625.html\"><strong>25 June 2018<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A closer view of the storms was provided by GOES-16 &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band02.pdf\"><strong>0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<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\/180625_goes16_visible_spc_storm_reports_Southeast_US_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_VIS_SEUS_SVR_25JUN2018_960x1280_B2_2018176_213026_0001PANEL_00301.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-16 \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible<em> (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with SPC storm reports plotted in red [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>A toggle between an 1854 UTC Aqua MODIS Infrared Window (11.0 \u00b5m) image and the corresponding Total Precipitable Water derived product <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed that abundant moisture was in place across the region &#8212; as pointed out by a SPC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/md\/md0877.html\"><strong>Mesoscale Discussion<\/strong><\/a>, TPW values in excess of 2.0 inches<em> (50 mm, violet enhancement)<\/em> suggested that wet microbursts were likely with any thunderstorms that developed.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 648px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/180625_1854utc_aqua_modis_InfraredWindow_TotalPrecipitableWater_Southeast_US_severe_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/180625_1854utc_aqua_modis_InfraredWindow_TotalPrecipitableWater_Southeast_US_severe_anim.gif\" alt=\"Aqua MODIS Infrared Window (11.0 \u00b5m) image and Total Precipitable Water derived product, with plots of SPC storm reports [click to enlarge]\" width=\"638\" height=\"379\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aqua MODIS Infrared Window <em>(11.0 \u00b5m)<\/em> image and Total Precipitable Water derived product, with plots of SPC storm reports [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GOESEast?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GOESEast<\/a> Geostationary Lightning Mapper captured the strong storms over <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SouthCarolina?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SouthCarolina<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Georgia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Georgia<\/a> yesterday &#8211; the red areas indicate the most frequent <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/lightning?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#lightning<\/a> flashes over a 5 minute period. See more <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/lightningfromspace?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#lightningfromspace<\/a> here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P1F11zXUHI\">https:\/\/t.co\/P1F11zXUHI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o39XZT6OuX\">pic.twitter.com\/o39XZT6OuX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NOAASatellites\/status\/1011640297649004545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-16 (GOES-East) &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images (above) showed the development of thunderstorms which produced small hail and widespread damaging winds (SPC storm reports) across the Southeast US on 25 June 2018. A closer view of the storms was provided by GOES-16 &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images (below). A toggle between an 1854 UTC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":28678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,74,12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aqua","category-goes-16","category-modis","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28672","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=28672"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28677,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28672\/revisions\/28677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}