{"id":38554,"date":"2020-10-11T23:59:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T23:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=38554"},"modified":"2021-01-15T03:16:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T03:16:16","slug":"lee-side-cold-frontal-gravity-wave-across-the-central-and-southern-plains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/38554","title":{"rendered":"Leeside cold frontal gravity wave across the central and southern Plains"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GOES-16 Upper-level Water Vapor (6.2 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with plots of hourly surface wind barbs and gusts [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> Upper-level Water Vapor (6.2 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) (above)<\/strong><\/em> and Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (below)<\/strong><\/em> displayed a well defined leeside cold frontal gravity wave (reference<\/strong><\/a>) as it began to propagate southward from Colorado\/Kansas late in the day on 11 October 2020<\/strong><\/a>. A bore structure eventually developed near the leading edge of the cold frontal gravity wave as it continued moving south over New Mexico\/Texas\/Oklahoma during the subsequent overnight hours.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with plots of hourly surface wind barbs and gusts [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>As the surface cold front moved southward across the drought-impacted<\/strong><\/a> plains of eastern Colorado, 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a> GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and CIMSS Natural Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed the hazy signature of blowing dust lofted by post-frontal northerly winds with peak gusts<\/strong><\/a> in the 60-80 knot range. Blowing dust reduced the surface visibility to 1-2 miles at several reporting stations, falling to near zero at some locations (causing a multi-vehicle accident along Interstate 70 in Kansas).<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> and CIMSS Natural Color RGB images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 True Color images created using Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a> (below) <\/strong><\/em>provided a clearer view of the blowing dust along and immediately behind the cold front across the Colorado\/Kansas border region.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 True Color images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Upper-level Water Vapor (6.2 \u00b5m) (above) and Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m) images (below) displayed a well defined leeside cold frontal gravity wave (reference) as it began to propagate southward from Colorado\/Kansas late in the day on 11 October 2020. A bore structure eventually developed near the leading edge of the cold frontal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":38575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,74,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-quality","category-goes-16","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38554","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=38554"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39658,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38554\/revisions\/39658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}