{"id":35487,"date":"2018-05-25T23:59:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T23:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=35487"},"modified":"2020-01-24T15:37:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T15:37:44","slug":"large-hail-in-north-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/35487","title":{"rendered":"Large hail in North Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2018\/05\/180525_goes16_conus_mesoscale_visible_spcStormReports_TX_hail_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2018\/05\/G16_VIS_TX_HAIL_25MAY2018_B2_2018145_233933_GOES-16_0001PANEL_FRAME00220.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-16 \" width=\"641\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible <em>(0.64 um)<\/em> images, with SPC Storm Reports plotted in red [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2018\/05\/180525_goes16_conus_mesoscale_visible_spcStormReports_TX_hail_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band02.pdf\"><strong>0.64 um<\/strong><\/a>) images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed an isolated supercell thunderstorm that moved south-southwestward across North Texas on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20180525.html\"><strong>25 May 2018<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; producing a nearly continuous swath of large hail and damaging winds (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/climo\/reports\/180525_rpts.html\"><strong>SPC Storm Reports<\/strong><\/a>). Beginning at 2000 UTC, a <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/23225\"><strong>Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a> was positioned over the area, providing images at 1-minute intervals. In addition, a well-defined <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.ametsoc.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1175\/WAF-D-18-0040.1?journalCode=wefo\"><strong>Above-Anvil Cirrus Plume<\/strong><\/a> could be seen with this thunderstorm, extending eastward from the core overshooting top region.<\/p>\n<p>After sunset, GOES-16 <a href=\"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/training\/visit\/quick_guides\/QuickGuide_GOESR_NtMicroRGB_Final_20191206.pdf\"><strong>Nighttime Microphysics<\/strong><\/a> Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images<em><strong> (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed the northeast-to-southwest oriented hail swath.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2018\/05\/180525_goes16_nighttimeMicrophysics_TX_hail_swath_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2018\/05\/GOES-16_ABI_RadC_night_microphysics_2018146_030225Z_anot.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 Nighttime Microphysics RGB images [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Nighttime Microphysics RGB images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2018\/05\/180525_goes16_nighttimeMicrophysics_TX_hail_swath_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-16 (GOES-East) &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (0.64 um) images (above) showed an isolated supercell thunderstorm that moved south-southwestward across North Texas on 25 May 2018 &#8212; producing a nearly continuous swath of large hail and damaging winds (SPC Storm Reports). Beginning at 2000 UTC, a Mesoscale Domain Sector was positioned over the area, providing images at 1-minute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,45,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-16","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35487","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=35487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35489,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35487\/revisions\/35489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}