{"id":3249,"date":"2009-08-16T23:59:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T23:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2009-08-17T02:02:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T02:02:01","slug":"tropical-storm-claudette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/3249","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Claudette"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/08\/090816_g12_ir_claudette_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GOES-12 IR images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/08\/090816_g12_ir_claudette_anim.gif\" alt=\"GOES-12 IR images\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-12 IR images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>GOES-12 IR images from the <a title=\"CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site\" href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/tropic2\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed that Tropical Storm Claudette intensified fairly quickly during the morning hours on <strong>16 August 2009<\/strong>, with the areal coverage of cold cloud tops increasing rapidly during the 09-15 UTC time period. A DMSP SSM\/IS 85 GHz microwave image at 13:02 UTC <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed the formation of convectiove banding within the eastern semicircle of the storm.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/08\/090816_mw_claudette.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"DMSP SSM\/I microwave image\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/08\/090816_mw_claudette.jpg\" alt=\"DMSP SSM\/I microwave image\" width=\"480\" height=\"463\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">DMSP SSM\/I microwave image<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While there was a report of 40 knot winds from a Carnival Cruise Line vessel to the northeast of the center of Claudette <em><strong>(below),<\/strong><\/em> this wind report was probably not representative of the winds at the surface <em>(due to the large size of the ship and the height of the wind measuring equipment)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/08\/090816_g12_vis_shipreports.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GOES-12 visible image with ship reports\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/08\/090816_g12_vis_shipreports.jpg\" alt=\"GOES-12 visible image with surface reports\" width=\"480\" height=\"464\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-12 visible image with ship reports<\/p><\/div>\n<p>AWIPS images of the MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel <em><strong>(below) <\/strong><\/em>revealed cloud top brightness temperatures as cold as<strong> -76\u00c2\u00ba C<\/strong> <em>(lighter red color enhancement)<\/em> south of the center of Claudette during the late morning and early afternoon hours.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/08\/090816_modis_ir_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/08\/090816_modis_ir_anim.gif\" alt=\"MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images\" width=\"480\" height=\"458\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-12 IR images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) showed that Tropical Storm Claudette intensified fairly quickly during the morning hours on 16 August 2009, with the areal coverage of cold cloud tops increasing rapidly during the 09-15 UTC time period. A DMSP SSM\/IS 85 GHz microwave image at 13:02 UTC (below) revealed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,12,26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-12","category-modis","category-poes","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249","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=3249"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3253,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions\/3253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}