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<\/a>GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, including plot of SPC Storm Reports (with and without parallax correction) [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>Overlapping 1-minute GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> Mesoscale Domain Sectors<\/strong><\/a> provided images at 30-second intervals over the Kansas\/Missouri\/Oklahoma\/Arkansas area on 10 January 2019<\/strong><\/a> — and “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/strong><\/a> images (above)<\/strong><\/em> included plots of SPC Storm Reports<\/strong><\/a> (with and without parallax<\/strong><\/a> correction) during the time period which produced the first 2 tornadoes (1 in southwestern Missouri, and 1 in northeastern Oklahoma) of a large-scale severe weather outbreak that continued into the subsequent nighttime hours and the following day.<\/p>\n The GOES-16 Visible images for the times corresponding to the 2 tornado reports (below)<\/strong><\/em> include “parallax-corrected” — shifted upward to match a 13 km cloud top, the Maximum Parcel Level calculated from the 18 UTC Springfield, Missouri sounding<\/strong><\/a> — and actual surface locations for each report. For the Oklahoma tornado report, the parallax-corrected location more closely matches the location of overshooting tops; for the Missouri tornado report, the parallax-corrected location more closely matches the location where a cluster of overshooting tops had passed several minutes earlier.<\/p>\n GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> image at 2030 UTC, including a Tornado report in Missouri (with and without parallax correction) [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div> GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> image at 2051 UTC, including a Tornado report in Oklahoma (with and without parallax correction) [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 parallax direction vectors and magnitude (km) for a cloud top feature at 50,000 feet (or 15.2 km) are shown below for select locations across the GOES-16 CONUS domain — a webapp that displays a current infrared image with user-selectable cloud heights is available here<\/strong><\/a>. Circled is a vector and magnitude in an area close to that shown in the images above.\u00a0 Note: the length of the vectors does not correspond to the actual distance of parallax correction.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>