{"id":29682,"date":"2018-09-03T23:59:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T23:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=29682"},"modified":"2018-09-05T00:42:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T00:42:27","slug":"tropical-storm-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/29682","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NOAA-20<\/a>

NOAA-20 VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m)<\/em> images at 0636 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>

\"Suomi<\/a>

Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m)<\/em> images at 0726 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Potential Tropical Cyclone 7 was located between the Bahamas and Florida during the pre-sunrise hours on 03 September 2018. Toggles between VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images from NOAA-20 at 0636 UTC and Suomi NPP at 0726 UTC are shown above (courtesy of William Straka, CIMSS).<\/p>\n

The storm became better organized and increased in intensity, and was named Tropical Storm Gordon<\/strong><\/a> at 1205 UTC. Animations of GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed Gordon as it moved across far southern Florida (where heavy rain and flash flooding occurred) and into the Gulf of Mexico during the daytime hours.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

===== 04 September Update =====<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a> GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (above)<\/strong><\/em> and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m)<\/strong><\/a> images (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed a series of widespread deep convective bursts within the northeast quadrant of the storm as it moved northeastward toward the Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>The GOES-16 Rainfall Rate\/QPE<\/strong><\/a> product (below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated rainfall rates of 2-3 inches per hour were possible from this convection, peaking in the 3-4 inch per hour range just after 1300 UTC. However, Infrared cloud-top brightness temperatures warmed dramatically<\/strong><\/a> as the convection moved onshore after about 22 UTC — and the Rain Rate product responded accordingly, with a significant decrease in hourly intensity.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Rain Rate product [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>Metop-A ASCAT surface scatterometer winds of 39 knots were sampled just northeast of the storm center at 1616\u00a0 UTC (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Rain Rate product with Metop-A ASCAT winds [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Potential Tropical Cyclone 7 was located between the Bahamas and Florida during the pre-sunrise hours on 03 September 2018. Toggles between VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images from NOAA-20 at 0636 UTC and Suomi NPP at 0726 UTC are shown above (courtesy of William Straka, CIMSS). The storm became better […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":29684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,58,78,25,49,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-metop","category-noaa-20","category-satellite-winds","category-suomi_npp","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29682","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=29682"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29708,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29682\/revisions\/29708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}