{"id":33425,"date":"2019-06-05T23:55:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T23:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=33425"},"modified":"2019-06-06T23:06:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T23:06:49","slug":"mesoscale-vortex-along-the-texas-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/33425","title":{"rendered":"Mesoscale vortex along the Texas coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/190605_goes16_visible_surfaceWinds_TX_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/G16_VIS_91L_05JUN2019_2019156_200643_GOES-16_0001PANEL.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images, with hourly surface wind barbs plotted in cyan [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"641\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible <em>(0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with hourly surface wind barbs plotted in cyan [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/190605_goes16_visible_surfaceWinds_TX_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> \u201cRed\u201d Visible (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band02.pdf\"><strong>0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> revealed a mesoscale vortex near the Texas coast (in the general vicinity of Houston) on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20190605.html\"><strong>05 June 2019<\/strong><\/a>. This could have been a <a href=\"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/training\/visit\/training_sessions\/mesoscale_convective_vortices\/\"><strong>Mesoscale Convective Vortex<\/strong><\/a> (MCV), but there is evidence to suggest that it was a remnant circulation of what was Tropical Invest 91L a few days earlier.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I&#8217;m always fascinated when convection rapidly changes the mesoscale dynamics of a system.<\/p>\n<p>Even though ex-<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/91L?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#91L<\/a> was a trough axis this morning near the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Texas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Texas<\/a> coast, convective updrafts &amp; heating redist. grew upscale into an MCS that helped to generate a new closed vortex. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/frXUzBFfsU\">pic.twitter.com\/frXUzBFfsU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Philippe Papin (@pppapin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pppapin\/status\/1136385777980411905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><\/center>Using a 3-hourly 850 hPa <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/misc\/winds\/info.winds.vor.html\"><strong>Relative Vorticity<\/strong><\/a> product from the <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/real-time\/windmain.php?&amp;basin=atlantic&amp;sat=wg8&amp;prod=vor&amp;zoom=&amp;time=\"><strong>CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site <em><strong>(below)<\/strong>,<\/em> the northward migration of vorticity associated with Invest 91L could be followed from the Bay of Campeche on 02 June to the Texas coast on 05 June.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/190602_190605_850hPaRelativeVorticity_Invest91L_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/20190606.00.NWAtlantic.850mbRelVorticityLarge.png\" alt=\"850 hPa Relative Vorticity product, from 00 UTC on 02 June to 00 UTC on 06 June 2019 [click to play animation]\" width=\"643\" height=\"455\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">850 hPa Relative Vorticity product, from 00 UTC on 02 June to 00 UTC on 06 June 2019 [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-16 (GOES-East) \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images (above) revealed a mesoscale vortex near the Texas coast (in the general vicinity of Houston) on 05 June 2019. This could have been a Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV), but there is evidence to suggest that it was a remnant circulation of what was Tropical Invest 91L a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":33427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-satellite-winds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33425","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=33425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33433,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33425\/revisions\/33433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}