{"id":40811,"date":"2021-05-02T23:59:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T23:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=40811"},"modified":"2021-05-03T23:21:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T23:21:12","slug":"blowing-dust-behind-the-outflow-of-a-severe-thunderstorm-in-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/40811","title":{"rendered":"Blowing dust behind the outflow of a severe thunderstorm in Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 655px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/05\/210502_goes16_visible_cimssNaturalColorRGB_dustRGB_CO_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/05\/co_rgb-20210502_222225.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 \" width=\"645\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible <em>(0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em>, CIMSS Natural Color RGB and Dust RGB images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/05\/210502_goes16_visible_cimssNaturalColorRGB_dustRGB_CO_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 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band02.pdf\"><strong>0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_CIMSSRGB_v2.pdf\"><strong>CIMSS Natural Color RGB<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/training\/visit\/quick_guides\/Dust_RGB_Quick_Guide.pdf\"><strong>Dust RGB<\/strong><\/a> images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong> <\/em>showed a pulse of blowing dust moving southward within the outflow of a severe thunderstorm in southeastern Colorado on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20210502.html\"><strong>02 May 2021<\/strong><\/a>. The storm produced a tornado, large hail and wind gusts as high as 93 mph at Lamar (KLAA) at 2309 UTC (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/climo\/reports\/210502_rpts.html\"><strong>SPC Storm Reports<\/strong><\/a>). The blowing dust eventually reduced surface visibility to 1 mile at Johnson City as it moved across far western Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>1-minute GOES-16 True Color RGB images created using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/software\/geo2grid\/\"><strong>Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> highlighted the characteristic tan-colored hues of blowing dust along and behind the thunderstorm outflow boundary.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/05\/210502_goes16_trueColorRGB_CO_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/05\/GOES-16_ABI_RadC_true_color_2021122_224117Z.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"643\" height=\"643\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/05\/210502_goes16_trueColorRGB_CO_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1-minute\u00a0Mesoscale Domain Sector\u00a0GOES-16 (GOES-East) &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (0.64 \u00b5m), CIMSS Natural Color RGB and Dust RGB images (above) showed a pulse of blowing dust moving southward within the outflow of a severe thunderstorm in southeastern Colorado on 02 May 2021. The storm produced a tornado, large hail and wind gusts as high as 93 mph at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":40814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,74,45,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-quality","category-goes-16","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40811","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=40811"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40825,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40811\/revisions\/40825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}