![\"GOES-](\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/03\/200328_goes16_visible_spcStormReports_Midwest_anim.gif\")
<\/a>GOES- 16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with time-matched (+\/- 4 minutes) 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> “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed widespread events of severe weather (SPC Storm Reports<\/strong><\/a>) associated with a large occluding low pressure system and its frontal boundaries on 28 March 2020<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n The corresponding GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images are shown below. The coldest cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures were in the -60 to -70\u00baC range (red to black enhancement)<\/em>. The most significant tornado produced EF-3 damage<\/strong><\/a> as it moved through Jonesboro, Arkansas beginning at 2157 UTC<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n GOES- 16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with time-matched (+\/- 4 minutes) SPC Storm Reports plotted in purple [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>A toggle between a Suomi NPP VIIRS Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) image (with plots of available NUCAPS soundings) and the Gridded NUCAPS CAPE values (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed pockets of instability across the lower Mississippi River Valley in advance of the approaching cold front. Due to the presence of dense multi-layer cloudiness across much of Arkansas, there were no successful infrared+microwave (green) NUCAPS profiles available near Jonesboro (KJBR), except for a few microwave-only (yellow) soundings just to the south.<\/p>\n<\/a>