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<\/a>GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with SPC Storm Reports plotted in red [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16\u00a0(GOES-East)<\/em>\u00a0\u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images with time-matched plots of\u00a0SPC Storm Reports<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(above)<\/strong><\/em> displayed clusters of thunderstorms that moved across eastern Wyoming and western South Dakota on 28 June 2020<\/strong><\/a>. Numerous overshooting tops were seen, along with cloud-top gravity waves and a couple of Above-Anvil Cirrus Plumes (reference<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0VISIT training<\/strong><\/a>). These storms produced hail as large as 2.25″ in diameter and wind gusts as high as 83 mph.<\/p>\n A longer sequence of GOES-16 \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images that extended for several hours after sunset (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed that some overshooting tops exhibited cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures as cold as -70\u00baC (darker black enhancement)<\/em>.<\/p>\n GOES-16 \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with SPC Storm Reports plotted in cyan [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>The tropopause temperature in 00 UTC rawinsonde data<\/strong><\/a> from Rapid City, SD was -63\u00baC (below) <\/em><\/strong>— so the overshooting tops of -70\u00baC were likely about 1 km above the local tropopause \/ equilibrium level<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/a>