{"id":40414,"date":"2021-03-29T13:21:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T13:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=40414"},"modified":"2021-03-29T13:21:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T13:21:53","slug":"1984-carolinas-tornado-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/40414","title":{"rendered":"1984: Carolinas Tornado Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NOAA&#8217;s GOES-5 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/earth-and-planetary-sciences\/visible-infrared-spin-scan-radiometer\">VISSR<\/a> view of a historical outbreak in the Carolina&#8217;s in 1984. March 28th and 29th, 1984 saw one of the most destructive tornado events in the history of North and South Carolina. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Infrared Loop:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/GOES5_ZOOM_IR_loop_1984088_120000_1984088_23300.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption>GOES-5 Infrared imagery from 12:00 UTC to 23:30 UTC on March 28, 1984. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The coldest clouds appear as darker shades of red. A regional scale <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/GOES5_IR_loop_1984088_120000_1984088_23300.mp4\">IR loop<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visible Loop:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/GOES5_VIS_loop_1984088_120000_1984088_233000.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption>GOES-5 visible imagery from 12:00 UTC to 23:30 UTC on March 28, 1984.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A more <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/GOES5_ZOOM_VIS_loop_1984088_120000_1984088_233000.mp4\">zoomed-in visible loop<\/a> over the same time range. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">H\/T <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mlgriffinWX1\">Melissa Griffin<\/a> for reminding us of this case: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OTD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OTD<\/a> in 1984, one of the most destructive tornado outbreaks in history, swept through the Carolinas. In all, 11 tornadoes raced across SC, including five F4 (wind estimated 207-260 mph). These tornadoes caused 15 deaths, 448 injuries, and damage of over $100 million. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/scwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#scwx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fzI8wLUiAm\">pic.twitter.com\/fzI8wLUiAm<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Melissa Griffin (@mlgriffinWX1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mlgriffinWX1\/status\/1376142777415778310?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More background on this case in 1984 was posted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSWilmingtonNC\">NWS Willmington<\/a> office: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/ilm\/CarolinasOutbreak\">https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/ilm\/CarolinasOutbreak<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/1024x1024_FD_GOES-5_SANDWICH_MED_BIG_NOMAP_28-Mar-1984_2100_UTC_logos.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>A combined visible and infrared GOES-5 Full Disk image from March 28, 1984 at 21 UTC. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/FD_GOES-5_SANDWICH_MED_BIG_NOMAP_28-Mar-1984_2100_UTC.JPG\">larger <\/a>Full Disk &#8220;sandwich&#8221; image. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/satellites\">NOAA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GOES_5\">GOES-5<\/a> data are via the University of Wisconsin-Madison <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/datacenter\/\">SSEC Satellite Data Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA&#8217;s GOES-5 VISSR view of a historical outbreak in the Carolina&#8217;s in 1984. March 28th and 29th, 1984 saw one of the most destructive tornado events in the history of North and South Carolina. Infrared Loop: The coldest clouds appear as darker shades of red. A regional scale IR loop. Visible Loop: A more zoomed-in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-historical"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40414","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40414"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40423,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40414\/revisions\/40423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}