{"id":29137,"date":"2018-07-28T23:59:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T23:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=29137"},"modified":"2018-12-01T22:10:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T22:10:43","slug":"tornadoes-in-wyoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/29137","title":{"rendered":"Tornadoes in Wyoming"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with hourly plots of surface observations (cyan\/yellow)<\/em> along with SPC storm reports and Interstate Highways (red)<\/em> and State Highways (cyan)<\/em> [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a> GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the development of a supercell thunderstorm that produced tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds (SPC storm reports<\/strong><\/a>) across parts of eastern Wyoming on 28 July 2018<\/strong><\/a>. A distinct above-anvil cirrus plume<\/a><\/strong> could be seen with this storm.<\/p>\n

The corresponding GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed that the dominant northern storm began to exhibit a well-defined enhanced-V<\/strong><\/a> signature (2051 UTC image<\/strong><\/a>) about an hour before it began to produce tornadoes. Minimum cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures were in the -60 to -65\u00baC range (darker shades of red)<\/em> with the stronger pulses of overshooting tops.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with hourly plots of surface observations (yellow)<\/em> along with SPC storm reports (cyan)<\/em> Interstate Highways (violet)<\/em> and State Highways (cyan)<\/em> [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>A sequence of Infrared Window images from Suomi VIIRS (11.45 \u00b5m) and Aqua MODIS (11.0 \u00b5m) (below)<\/em> <\/strong>showed minimum cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures rapidly cooling from the -40s to -72\u00baC as the dominant storm crossed Interstate 25.<\/p>\n

\"Suomi<\/a>

Infrared Window images from Suomi NPP VIIRS (11.45 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Aqua MODIS (11.0 \u00b5m)<\/em> [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A comparison of the Terra and Aqua MODIS Total Precipitable Water product (below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that TPW values increased from the 10-20 mm range to the 20-30 mm range in less than 2 hours.<\/p>\n

\"Terra<\/a>

Terra and Aqua MODIS Total Precipitable Water product [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images (above) showed the development of a supercell thunderstorm that produced tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds (SPC storm reports) across parts of eastern Wyoming on 28 July 2018. A distinct above-anvil cirrus plume could be seen with this storm. The corresponding GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":29140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,74,12,3,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aqua","category-goes-16","category-modis","category-severe-convection","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29137","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=29137"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30919,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29137\/revisions\/30919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}