{"id":36809,"date":"2020-05-15T23:59:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T23:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=36809"},"modified":"2020-05-22T00:07:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T00:07:07","slug":"back-building-thunderstorms-in-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/36809","title":{"rendered":"Back-building thunderstorms in Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200515_goes16_visible_spcStormReports_OK_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/G16_VIS_OK_15MAY2020_B2_2020136_200549_GOES-16_0001PANEL_FRAME00366.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-16 \" width=\"642\" height=\"571\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images, with SPC Storm Reports plotted in red [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200515_goes16_visible_spcStormReports_OK_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>1-minute <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/23225\"><strong>Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a> 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 with plots of time-matched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/climo\/reports\/200515_rpts.html\"><strong>SPC Storm Reports<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed back-building thunderstorms that propagated southwestward across Oklahoma on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20200515.html\"><strong>15 May 2020<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The corresponding GOES-16 &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band13.pdf\"><strong>10.35 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed pulsing overshooting tops that occasionally exhibited cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures as cold as -80\u00baC (violet pixels) toward the end of the time period.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200515_goes16_infrared_spcStormReports_OK_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/G16_IR_OK_15MAY2020_B13_2020136_200549_GOES-16_0001PANEL_FRAME00366.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-16 &quot;Clean&quot; Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) images, with SPC Storm Reports plotted in cyan [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"643\" height=\"572\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) images, with SPC Storm Reports plotted in cyan [click to play animation | MP4]<\/p><\/div>Plots of 12 UTC and 18 UTC rawinsonde data from Norman, Oklahoma<em><strong> (below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that winds throughout the troposphere had a westerly to southerly component.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200515_KOUN_RAOBS.GIF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200515_KOUN_RAOBS.GIF\" alt=\"Plots of rawinsonde data from Norman, Oklahoma [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plots of rawinsonde data from Norman, Oklahoma [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images with plots of time-matched SPC Storm Reports (above) showed back-building thunderstorms that propagated southwestward across Oklahoma on 15 May 2020. The corresponding GOES-16 &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) images (below) revealed pulsing overshooting tops that occasionally exhibited cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures as cold as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":36812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36809","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=36809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36811,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36809\/revisions\/36811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}