{"id":36803,"date":"2020-05-26T14:04:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T14:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=36803"},"modified":"2020-05-26T18:58:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T18:58:36","slug":"1985-may-31st-tornado-outbreak-as-seen-from-goes-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/36803","title":{"rendered":"1985 (May 31st) Tornado Outbreak as seen from GOES-6"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/PA_VIS_OUTBREAK_B1_1985151_213000_GOES-6_0001PANEL_FRAME00140.gif\">visible<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/PA__IR_OUTBREAK_B8_1985151_213000_GOES-6_0001PANEL_FRAME00140.gif\">infrared<\/a> bands from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GOES_6\">GOES-6<\/a> observed the historic (31 May 1985) tornado outbreak over Pennsylvania and other parts of the Northeast. For the IR band, the coldest cloud-top temperatures are highlighted with colors. Here&#8217;s is a visible animation a bit more <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/PA_VIS_ZOOM_OUTBREAK_B1_1985151_213000_GOES-6_0001PANEL_FRAME00046.gif\">zoomed<\/a> in.<\/p>\r\n<p>A GOES-6 visible loop, starting at 11:00 UTC on May 31, 1985 (and ends at 01:00 UTC on June 1, 1985):<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"width: 625px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-36803-1\" width=\"625\" height=\"450\" loop preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/PA_VIS_OUTBREAK_loop_1985151_110000_1985152_010000.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/PA_VIS_OUTBREAK_loop_1985151_110000_1985152_010000.mp4\">https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/PA_VIS_OUTBREAK_loop_1985151_110000_1985152_010000.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\r\n<p>A similar\u00a0 GOES-6 visible loop, but a bit more zoomed in. Loop starting at 11:00 UTC on May 31, 1985 (and ends at 01:00 UTC on June 1, 1985):<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"width: 625px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-36803-2\" width=\"625\" height=\"450\" loop preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/PA_VIS_ZOOM_OUTBREAK_loop_1985151_180000_1985152_010000.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/PA_VIS_ZOOM_OUTBREAK_loop_1985151_180000_1985152_010000.mp4\">https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/PA_VIS_ZOOM_OUTBREAK_loop_1985151_180000_1985152_010000.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\r\n<p>A GOES-6 infrared loop, starting at 11:00 UTC on May 31, 1985 (and ends at 00:30 UTC on June 1, 1985):<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"width: 625px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-36803-3\" width=\"625\" height=\"450\" loop preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/PA_IR_loop_1985151.mp4?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/PA_IR_loop_1985151.mp4\">https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/PA_IR_loop_1985151.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/goes6_PA_1985_fader.html\">Fade<\/a> between a GOES-6 Visible and Infrared band:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/goes6_PA_1985_fader.html\">https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/goes6_PA_1985_fader.html<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/goes6_PA_1985_swiper.html\">Swipe<\/a>&#8221; between a GOES-6 Visible and Infrared band:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/goes6_PA_1985_swiper.html\">https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/goes6_PA_1985_swiper.html<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nesdis.noaa.gov\/\">NOAA<\/a> GOES-6 data are via the University of Wisconsin-Madison <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/datacenter\/\">SSEC Satellite Data Services<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>More on this case, from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1985_United_States%E2%80%93Canada_tornado_outbreak\">Wikipedia<\/a> and NOAA&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/ctp\/TornadoOutbreak_May311985\"> NWS<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The visible and infrared bands from GOES-6 observed the historic (31 May 1985) tornado outbreak over Pennsylvania and other parts of the Northeast. For the IR band, the coldest cloud-top temperatures are highlighted with colors. Here&#8217;s is a visible animation a bit more zoomed in. A GOES-6 visible loop, starting at 11:00 UTC on May [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,47,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-other-satellites","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36803","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36803"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36889,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36803\/revisions\/36889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}