{"id":36690,"date":"2020-05-12T23:58:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T23:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=36690"},"modified":"2020-05-15T17:01:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T17:01:07","slug":"mesoscale-convective-vortex-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/36690","title":{"rendered":"Mesoscale Convective Vortex in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200512_goes16_visible_TX_mcv_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/tx_vis-20200512_171449.png\" alt=\"vGOES-16 \" width=\"643\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible<em> (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200512_goes16_visible_TX_mcv_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 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images<em><strong> (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the cyclonic circulation of a <a href=\"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/training\/visit\/training_sessions\/mesoscale_convective_vortices\/\"><strong>Mesoscale Convective Vortex<\/strong><\/a> (MCV) in the Hill Country of Texas (east of San Angelo, KSJT) on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20200512.html\"><strong>12 May 2020<\/strong><\/a>. The animation begins with 5-minute CONUS sector images, then transitions to 1-minute images as a <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/23225\"><strong>Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a> is positioned over the area at 1529 UTC. As the MCV approached a cluster of ongoing convection, a few <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/climo\/reports\/200512_rpts.html\"><strong>tornadoes<\/strong><\/a> were reported, likely due to the MCV enhancing low-level wind shear (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/md\/md0572.html\"><strong>SPC Mesoscale Discussion<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>A more subtle signature of the MCV circulation was also evident in GOES-16 Low-level Water Vapor (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band10.pdf\"><strong>7.34 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images<em><strong> (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200512_goes16_waterVapor_TX_mcv_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/tx_wv-20200512_171449.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 Low-level Water Vapor (7.34 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"643\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Low-level Water Vapor <em>(7.34 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200512_goes16_waterVapor_TX_mcv_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-16 (GOES-East) &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images (above) showed the cyclonic circulation of a Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV) in the Hill Country of Texas (east of San Angelo, KSJT) on 12 May 2020. The animation begins with 5-minute CONUS sector images, then transitions to 1-minute images as a Mesoscale Domain Sector is positioned over the [&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":[74,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-16","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36690","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=36690"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36700,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36690\/revisions\/36700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}