{"id":37051,"date":"2020-06-04T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=37051"},"modified":"2020-06-10T16:14:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T16:14:58","slug":"mcs-merger-over-northwestern-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/37051","title":{"rendered":"MCS merger over northwestern Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/06\/2020_06_03-04_ircm.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/06\/200604_0556utc_goes16_infrared_mcs_merger.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) images (credit: Pete Porandt, AOS) [click to play MP4 animation]\" width=\"642\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window <em>(10.35 \u00b5m)<\/em> images (credit: Pete Porandt, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aos.wisc.edu\/\"><strong>AOS<\/strong><\/a>) [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East) <\/em>\u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band13.pdf\"><strong>10.35 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images covering the 26-hour period from 1801 UTC on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20200603.html\"><strong>03 June<\/strong><\/a> to 1956 UTC on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20200604.html\">04 June 2020<\/a><em> (above)<\/em><\/strong> featured the merger of 2 Mesoscale Convective Systems over northwestern Missouri (beginning around 06 UTC). An animation of radar reflectivity is available <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/06\/2020_06_03-04_highplains_nexrad.mp4\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> (credit: Pete Pokrandt, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aos.wisc.edu\/\">AOS<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">To all of you asking us what this means\/is. We basically have a back-building Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) from the east running into a forward propagating MCS from the west. It&#8217;s not out of the realm of possibility, but for us on shift we&#8217;ve never witnessed it in real-time. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AIBLTz0cul\">https:\/\/t.co\/AIBLTz0cul<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NWS Kansas City (@NWSKansasCity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSKansasCity\/status\/1268430973470773249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n1-minute\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/23225\"><strong>Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a> GOES-16 Infrared images from 0200-0800 UTC<em><strong> (below)<\/strong> <\/em>include time-matched plots of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/climo\/reports\/200603_rpts.html\"><strong>SPC Storm Reports<\/strong><\/a>. Cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures reached -80\u00baC <em>(violet pixels)<\/em> around the time of the MCS merger.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/06\/200604_goes16_infrared_spcStormReports_MO_mcs_merger_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/06\/G16_IR_MO_MCS_MERGER_04JUN2020_B13_2020156_055551_GOES-16_0001PANEL_FRAME00236.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-16 \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) images, with SPC storm reports plotted in cyan [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"643\" height=\"483\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) images, with SPC storm reports plotted in cyan [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/06\/200604_goes16_infrared_spcStormReports_MO_mcs_merger_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>With ample illumination from the Moon &#8212; in the Waxing Gibbous phase, at 93% of Full &#8212; a Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) image <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> shortly after the MCS merger revealed cloud-top gravity waves propagating outward from the center of the storm (along with numerous clusters of bright white pixels, highlighting areas of intense lightning activity):<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 649px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/06\/mcs_merger_viirs_dnb-20200604_071607.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/06\/mcs_merger_viirs_dnb-20200604_071607.png\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) image [click to enlarge]\" width=\"639\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band <em>(0.7 \u00b5m)<\/em>\u00a0image [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As the merged MCS dissipated during the day on 04 June, a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/training\/visit\/training_sessions\/mesoscale_convective_vortices\/\">Mesoscale Convective Vortex<\/a><\/strong> became evident on GOES-16 &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band02.pdf\"><strong>0.64 <em>\u00b5m<\/em><\/strong><\/a>) images <em><strong>(below)<\/strong>,<\/em> which then moved across southeastern Missouri, far southern Illinois and western Kentucky (helping to initiate new convective activity).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/06\/200604_goes16_visible_MO_IL_mcv_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/06\/mcv_vis-20200604_200113.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"643\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible <em>(0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/06\/200604_goes16_visible_MO_IL_mcv_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-16 (GOES-East) \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) images covering the 26-hour period from 1801 UTC on 03 June to 1956 UTC on 04 June 2020 (above) featured the merger of 2 Mesoscale Convective Systems over northwestern Missouri (beginning around 06 UTC). An animation of radar reflectivity is available here (credit: Pete Pokrandt, AOS). To all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":37054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,3,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-severe-convection","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37051","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=37051"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37168,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37051\/revisions\/37168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}