{"id":29718,"date":"2018-09-09T22:16:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T22:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=29718"},"modified":"2018-09-11T13:40:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T13:40:49","slug":"hurricane-florence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/29718","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Florence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> iimages [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>After previously weakening from a Category 4 hurricane (on 04 September) to a tropical storm on 07 September (track\/intensity<\/strong><\/a>), Florence<\/strong><\/a> re-intensified to become a Category 1 hurricane at 15 UTC on 09 September 2018. 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a> GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> “Red” Visible (0.63 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) are shown above, with the corresponding “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images shown below. An eye structure appeared for brief intervals during the day, but was often masked by cloud debris from a series of convective bursts within the surrounding eyewall.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

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

\"GPM<\/a>

GPM GMI Microwave (85 GHz)<\/em> image at 1811 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>GPM GMI (above)<\/strong><\/em> and DMSP-16 SSMIS (below)<\/strong><\/em> Microwave (85 GHz) images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site revealed that the eye was still partially open at 1811 UTC and 1945 UTC.<\/p>\n

\"DMSP-16<\/a>

DMSP-16 SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz)<\/em> image at 1845 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n

===== 10 September Update =====<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with GLM Group lightning [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 GLM lightning Groups (aggregates of GLM lightning Events)<\/em> are plotted on “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images (above)<\/strong><\/em> and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images (below),<\/strong><\/em> courtesy of Dave Santek, SSEC.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with GLM Group lightning [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Overlapping GOES-16 and GOES-17 Mesoscale Domain Sectors<\/strong><\/a> were positioned over Hurricane Florence beginning at 1200 UTC (providing imagery at 30-second intervals)<\/em> — Visible animations are shown below.<\/p>\n

* GOES-17 images shown here are preliminary and non-operational *<\/em><\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

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

\"GOES-17<\/a>

GOES-17 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>Longer animations of 30-second GOES-16 Visible and Infrared images viewed using AWIPS (below)<\/strong><\/em> provided a better view of\u00a0 the mesovortices within the eye. Florence rapidly intensified (ADT<\/strong><\/a> | SATCON<\/strong><\/a>) to a Category 4 hurricane during this period.<\/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>One particularly large mesovortex rotated around the eastern edge of the eye after 2100 UTC, significantly eroding the eyewall (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/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>Later in the early evening hours, GOES-16 Infrared imagery (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed an area of pronounced cloud-top warming and a thinning of cloud material just south of the eyewall, as Florence began to undergo an eyewall replacement cycle.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After previously weakening from a Category 4 hurricane (on 04 September) to a tropical storm on 07 September (track\/intensity), Florence re-intensified to become a Category 1 hurricane at 15 UTC on 09 September 2018. 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.63 \u00b5m) are shown above, with the corresponding “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":29745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,76,74,80,30,79,47,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dmsp","category-glm","category-goes-16","category-goes-17","category-lightning","category-microwave","category-other-satellites","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29718","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=29718"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29746,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29718\/revisions\/29746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}