{"id":34522,"date":"2019-09-29T12:59:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T12:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=34522"},"modified":"2019-10-01T01:27:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T01:27:35","slug":"hurricane-lorenzo-reaches-category-5-intensity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/34522","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Lorenzo reaches Category 5 intensity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/190928_goes16_infrared_Lorenzo_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/G16_IR_LORENZO_28SEP2019_B13_2019272_012025_GOES-16_0001PANEL_FRAME00045.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-16 &quot;Clean&quot; Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation | MP4] \" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window <em>(10.35 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/190928_goes16_infrared_Lorenzo_anim.mp4\"><em><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/em><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band13.pdf\"><strong>10.35 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong> <\/em>showed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2019\/LORENZO.shtml?\"><strong>Hurricane Lorenzo<\/strong><\/a> during the time it intensified to a Category 5 storm around 0130 UTC on 29 September 2019. A plot of the CIMSS <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/misc\/adt\/info.html\"><strong>Advanced Dvorak Technique<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated a peak intensity estimate of 143 knots from 0220-0820 UTC.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/190929_adt_Lorenzo.GIF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/190929_adt_Lorenzo.GIF\" alt=\"Plot of the CIMSS Advanced Dvorak Technique (ADT) for Hurricane Lorenzo [click to enlarge]\" width=\"642\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plot of the CIMSS Advanced Dvorak Technique (ADT) for Hurricane Lorenzo [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lorenzo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Lorenzo<\/a> has strengthened into a Category 5 hurricane at 45\u00b0W &#8211; the farthest east Category 5 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/hurricane?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#hurricane<\/a> in the Atlantic on record. Previous record was Hurricane Hugo in 1989 at 54.6\u00b0W. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FXGgKFPc3m\">pic.twitter.com\/FXGgKFPc3m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Philip Klotzbach (@philklotzbach) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/philklotzbach\/status\/1178131213715795969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 29, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\nA toggle between NOAA-20 VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images at 0425 UTC is shown below.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/190929_0425utc_noaa20_viirs_dayNightBand_infraredWindow_Lorenzo_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/190929_0425utc_noaa20_viirs_dayNightBand_infraredWindow_Lorenzo_anim.gif\" width=\"641\" height=\"347\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA-20 VIIRS Day\/Night Band<em> (0.7 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Infrared Window <em>(11.45 \u00b5m)<\/em> images<em> (courtesy of William Straka, CIMSS)<\/em> [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div><div style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/190927_190929_goes16_waterVapor_deepLayerShear_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/20190928.00.NWAtlantic.DeepShearStorm.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 Water Vapor images, with contours and streamlines of deep-layer wind shear [click to play animation]\" width=\"642\" height=\"485\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Water Vapor <em>(6.9 \u00b5m<\/em>) images, with contours and streamlines of deep-layer wind shear [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>Lorenzo was moving through an environment characterized by low values of d<a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/misc\/winds\/info.winds.shr.html\"><strong>eep-layer vertical wind shear<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em>. In addition, Lorenzo was moving over water having warm Sea Surface Temperatures but only modest Ocean Heat Content <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/190929_seaSurfaceTemperature_oceanHeatContent_Lorenzo_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/190929_seaSurfaceTemperature_oceanHeatContent_Lorenzo_anim.gif\" alt=\"Sea Surface Temperature and Ocean Heat Content on 29 September, with a plot of the track\/intensity of Lorenzo [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sea Surface Temperature and Ocean Heat Content on 29 September, with a plot of the track\/intensity of Lorenzo [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-16 (GOES-East) &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) images (above) showed Hurricane Lorenzo during the time it intensified to a Category 5 storm around 0130 UTC on 29 September 2019. A plot of the CIMSS Advanced Dvorak Technique (below) indicated a peak intensity estimate of 143 knots from 0220-0820 UTC. #Lorenzo has strengthened into a Category [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":34526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,78,25,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-noaa-20","category-satellite-winds","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34522","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=34522"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34531,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34522\/revisions\/34531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}