{"id":37832,"date":"2020-08-03T23:59:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T23:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=37832"},"modified":"2020-08-06T15:44:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T15:44:47","slug":"isaias-re-intensifies-to-a-hurricane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/37832","title":{"rendered":"Isaias re-intensifies to a Hurricane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/08\/200803_goes16_visible_infrared_TS_Isaias_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/08\/hisa_ir-20200804_000028.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"641\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible<em> (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window <em>(10.35 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/08\/200803_goes16_visible_infrared_TS_Isaias_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>1-minute\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/23225\"><strong>Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0GOES-16\u00a0<em>(GOES-East)\u00a0<\/em>\u201cRed\u201d Visible (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band02.pdf\"><strong>0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band13.pdf\"><strong>10.35 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images<em><strong> (above) <\/strong><\/em>showed the 10-hour period leading up to the time when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2020\/ISAIAS.shtml?\"><strong>Tropical Storm Isaias<\/strong><\/a> re-intensified to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2020\/al09\/al092020.public_a.027.shtml?\"><strong>Category 1 hurricane<\/strong><\/a> intensity on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20200803.html\"><strong>03 August 2020<\/strong><\/a>. The center of Isaias passed near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndbc.noaa.gov\/station_page.php?station=41004\"><strong>Buoy 41004<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> &#8212; ahead of the storm, there was a wind gust to 62 knots (71 mph) at 21 UTC, and after the storm\u00a0 center had passed there was a wind gust to 68 knots (78 mph).<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/08\/200804_02utc_buoy41004_wind_gust_pressure.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/08\/200804_02utc_buoy41004_wind_gust_pressure.png\" alt=\"Plot of wind speed (blue), wind gust (red) and air pressure (green) at Buoy 41004 [click to enlarge]\" width=\"642\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plot of wind speed<em> (blue),<\/em> wind gust <em>(red)<\/em> and air pressure<em> (green)<\/em> at Buoy 41004<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 Infrared images with and without an overlay of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/spacesegment\/glm.html\"><strong>GLM<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vlab.ncep.noaa.gov\/web\/geostationary-lightning-mapper\/overview\/-\/asset_publisher\/hNLfUix1macb\/blog\/operational-utility-of-glm-flash-extent-density-on-june-1\"><strong>Flash Extent Density<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed that there was some lightning activity associated with areas of deep convection around the center of Isaias.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/08\/200803_goes16_infrared_glmFlashExtentDensity_TS_Isaias_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/08\/hisa_glm-20200804_000028.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) images, with and without an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"643\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window<em> (10.35 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with and without an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/08\/200803_goes16_infrared_glmFlashExtentDensity_TS_Isaias_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Hurricane Isaias made landfall\u00a0 in North Carolina at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2020\/al09\/al092020.update.08040316.shtml?\"><strong>0315 UTC on 04 August<\/strong><\/a> (11:15 PM EDT); a few hours later, VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) images from the <a href=\"https:\/\/ge.ssec.wisc.edu\/viirs-today\/index.php?satellite=n1&amp;product=DNB&amp;date=2020_08_04_217&amp;overlay_sector=false&amp;overlay_state=true&amp;overlay_coastline=true\"><strong>VIIRS Today<\/strong><\/a> site <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0showed the hurricane as it was moving further inland.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/08\/200804_suomiNPP_noaa20_viirs_dayNightBand_Isaias_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/08\/200804_suomiNPP_noaa20_viirs_dayNightBand_Isaias_anim.gif\" alt=\"VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) images from Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 [click to enlarge]\" width=\"642\" height=\"452\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">VIIRS Day\/Night Band <em>(0.7 \u00b5m)<\/em> images from Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1-minute\u00a0Mesoscale Domain Sector\u00a0GOES-16\u00a0(GOES-East)\u00a0\u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) images (above) showed the 10-hour period leading up to the time when Tropical Storm Isaias re-intensified to Category 1 hurricane intensity on 03 August 2020. The center of Isaias passed near Buoy 41004 (below) &#8212; ahead of the storm, there was a wind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":37854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,74,30,78,49,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glm","category-goes-16","category-lightning","category-noaa-20","category-suomi_npp","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37832","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=37832"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37884,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37832\/revisions\/37884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}