{"id":36352,"date":"2020-04-22T23:59:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T23:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=36352"},"modified":"2020-04-24T19:37:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T19:37:41","slug":"severe-weather-in-oklahoma-texas-and-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/36352","title":{"rendered":"Severe weather in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [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>) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed thunderstorms that produced a variety of severe weather (SPC Storm Reports<\/strong><\/a>) across far southern Oklahoma on 22 April 2020<\/strong><\/a>. These discrete supercell storms developed along a cold front associated with a low pressure system moving across the region (surface analyses<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n

GOES-16 Visible and Infrared images with plots of time-matched SPC Storm Reports are shown below.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m, top)<\/em> and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m, bottom)<\/em> images, with plots of SPC Storm Reports [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Farther to the southeast across eastern Texas, GOES-16 Visible and Infrared images (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed a large and long-lived supercell thunderstorm that eventually moved eastward into Louisiana.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 Visible and Infrared images with plots of time-matched SPC Storm Reports are shown below. An Above-Anvil Cirrus Plume<\/strong><\/a> was produced by this thunderstorm, and cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures were as cold as -80\u00baC (violet pixels)<\/em>. Early in its life cycle, after dropping hail of 1.0-2.0 inches in diameter, the supercell produced the fatal EF-3 Onalaska tornado<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m, top)<\/em> and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m, bottom)<\/em> images, with plots of SPC Storm Reports [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>A toggle between 1-km resolution NOAA-19 AVHRR<\/strong><\/a> Visible (0.63 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (10.8 \u00b5m) images at 2338 UTC (below)<\/strong><\/em> provided a more detailed view of the Above-Anvil Cirrus Plume. The coldest cloud-top infrared brightness temperature in the region of the overshooting top was -84.7\u00baC.<\/p>\n

\"NOAA-19<\/a>

NOAA-19 AVHRR Visible (0.63 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Infrared Window (10.8 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Additional imagery of these storms is available on the Satellite Liaison Blog<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) images (above) showed thunderstorms that produced a variety of severe weather (SPC Storm Reports) across far southern Oklahoma on 22 April 2020. These discrete supercell storms developed along a cold front associated with a low pressure system moving across […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":36355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,74,26,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avhrr","category-goes-16","category-poes","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36352","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=36352"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36374,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36352\/revisions\/36374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}