{"id":28850,"date":"2018-07-09T20:59:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T20:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=28850"},"modified":"2018-07-10T15:04:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T15:04:21","slug":"mesoscale-convective-vortex-generated-by-monsoon-thunderstorms-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/28850","title":{"rendered":"Mesoscale Convective Vortex generated by monsoon thunderstorms in Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The mesoscale convective vortex (thunderstorm complex) from Arizona overnight is evident a small eye on visible satellite and large mass of debris clouds over <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/socal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#socal<\/a> in addition to the morning dust layer in the Coachella Valley <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cawx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cawx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Monsoon2018?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Monsoon2018<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VE3QB6iKfh\">pic.twitter.com\/VE3QB6iKfh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NWS San Diego (@NWSSanDiego) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSSanDiego\/status\/1016364001415098368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 9, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>As mentioned by NWS San Diego, monsoon thunderstorms that developed over Arizona spawned a small <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/training\/visit\/training_sessions\/mesoscale_convective_vortices\/\">Mesoscale Convective Vortex<\/a><\/strong> (MCV). The animation below shows nighttime 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, followed by daytime 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 &#8212; the center of the MCV circulation briefly exhibited an &#8220;eye-like&#8221; appearance just after 16 UTC (south of the California\/Mexico border).<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 649px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/180709_goes16_infrared_visible_AZ_CA_MX_Mesoscale_Convective_Vortex_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/G16_VIS_AZ_CA_MX_MCV_09JUL2018_960x1280_B2_2018190_161223_0001PANEL_00039.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-16 \" width=\"639\" height=\"479\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window <em>(10.3 \u00b5m)<\/em> and &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible <em>(0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with hourly plots of surface reports [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>A 1-km resolution NOAA-19 Infrared Window (10.8 \u00b5m) image at 1132 UTC <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed a more detailed view of the small cluster of thunderstorms responsible for the MCV &#8212; the convection produced 0.68&#8243; of rainfall near Yuma KNYZ in far southwestern Arizona, and generated an outflow boundary which produced wind gusts to 46 mph at Thermal, California KTRM (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/180709_kpsr_ksgx_rtp_pns.text\"><strong>NWS statements<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/180709_N19_IR_MCV.GIF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/180709_N19_IR_MCV.GIF\" alt=\"NOAA-19 AVHRR Infrared Window (10.8 \u00b5m) image [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA-19 AVHRR Infrared Window <em>(10.8 \u00b5m)<\/em> image [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A toggle between 1-km resolution NOAA-15 and NOAA-18 Visible (0.63 \u00b5m) images <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed the emergence of the eye-like MCV center in far northern Baja California (just southeast of Campo, California KCZZ) at <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/180709_N18_VIS_MCV.GIF\"><strong>1547 UTC<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/180709_poes_avhrr_visible_mcv_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/180709_poes_avhrr_visible_mcv_anim.gif\" alt=\"NOAA-15 and NOAA-18 Visible (0.63 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA-15 and NOAA-18 Visible <em>(0.63 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mesoscale convective vortex (thunderstorm complex) from Arizona overnight is evident a small eye on visible satellite and large mass of debris clouds over #socal in addition to the morning dust layer in the Coachella Valley #cawx #Monsoon2018 pic.twitter.com\/VE3QB6iKfh \u2014 NWS San Diego (@NWSSanDiego) July 9, 2018 As mentioned by NWS San Diego, monsoon thunderstorms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":28855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,74,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avhrr","category-goes-16","category-poes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28850","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=28850"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28860,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28850\/revisions\/28860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}