![\"GOES-16](\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/190522_goes16_visible_spcStormReports_Midwest_anim.gif\")
<\/a>GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with SPC Storm Reports plotted in red [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a> GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the development of supercell thunderstorms that produced tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds (SPC Storm Reports<\/strong><\/a>) across parts of Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri on 22 May 2019<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n GOES-16 \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the storms as they persisted into the nighttime hours — including storms that produced EF3-rated tornadoes that affected Golden City, Missouri around 0211 UTC<\/strong><\/a> (which was responsible for 3 fatalities)<\/em> and Jefferson City, Missouri around 0440 UTC<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n GOES-16 \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with SPC Storm Reports plotted in cyan [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>A closer look at 1-minute GOES-16 Infrared images for the storm producing the EF-3 tornado that affected Golden City, Missouri\u00a0 is shown below. A pulsing updraft with cold (brighter white)<\/em> infrared brightness temperature overshooting tops could be seen with the parent supercell as it crossed the Oklahoma\/Kansas border around 0000 UTC, moved across extreme southeastern Kansas, then moved into southwestern Missouri around 0100 UTC. The NWS Springfield damage survey<\/strong><\/a> listed the start time of the Garden City tornado at 0151 UTC.<\/p>\n GOES-16 \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with SPC Storm Reports plotted in cyan [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>About 20 minutes prior to the Jefferson City tornado, a Terra MODIS Infrared Window (11.0 \u00b5m) image (below)<\/strong><\/em> displayed a well-defined Enhanced-V<\/strong><\/a> storm top signature.<\/p>\n Terra MODIS Infrared Window (11.0 \u00b5m)<\/em> image, with plot of SPC storm reports [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A closer look at 1-minute GOES-16 Infrared images for the storm producing the EF-3 tornado that affected Jefferson City (KJEF) is shown below — of note are the 2 pre-tornado updraft pulses west\/southwest of KJEF at 0346 UTC<\/strong><\/a> and 0359 UTC<\/strong><\/a>, when cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures briefly cooled to -81\u00baC and -82\u00baC, respectively (violet pixels)<\/em>. The NWS St. Louis<\/strong><\/a> storm survey indicated that the tornado which eventually moved through Jefferson City began southwest of the city at 0420 UTC.<\/p>\n GOES-16 \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with SPC Storm Reports plotted in cyan [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>A few hours later, a sequence of 3 VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images (below)<\/strong><\/em> from Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 showed the line of supercell thunderstorms between 0704 and 0844 UTC.<\/p>\n VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m)<\/em> images from Suomi NPP (0704 and 0844 UTC) and NOAA-20 (0754 UTC) [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A closer view of the Suomi NPP VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) image at 0704 UTC (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed another well defined Enhanced-V signature in far northeastern Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>