{"id":46518,"date":"2022-05-25T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=46518"},"modified":"2022-05-27T15:36:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T15:36:07","slug":"high-altitude-turbulence-over-the-southern-plains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/46518","title":{"rendered":"High-altitude turbulence over the Southern Plains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/05\/220525_goes16_waterVapor_rap40MaxWindSpeed_Sothern_Plains_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/05\/sp_jet-20220525_210117.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Upper-level Water Vapor (6.2 \u00b5m) images, with pilot reports of turbulence (cyan) &#8212; with and without contours of RAP40 model Maximum Wind Speed (yellow) [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/05\/220525_goes16_waterVapor_rap40MaxWindSpeed_turbulenceProbability_Sothern_Plains_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> Upper-level Water Vapor (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band08.pdf\"><strong>6.2 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images with pilot reports of turbulence &#8212; with and without contours of RAP40 model Maximum Wind Speed <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed an <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/05\/220525_18utc_500hPa_anom.png\"><strong>anomalously-deep 500 hPa trough<\/strong><\/a> over the Southern Plains, where there was an <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/05\/220525_18utc_250hPa_anom.png\"><strong>anomalously-strong 250 hPa jet streak<\/strong><\/a> developing along its forward (eastern) edge. A number of pilot reports of moderate to severe turbulence were seen within the exit region of this jet streak.<\/p>\n<p>In GOES-16 Upper-level Water Vapor images with and without an overlay of a <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/turbulence\/?satellite=goes-e&amp;hem=NH&amp;region=Midwest&amp;datetime=LATEST&amp;action=view_ani\"><strong>Turbulence Probability<\/strong><\/a> product <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>, higher probability values were apparent in the area near\/along the axis of the 250 hPa jet streak (and the related pilot reports of turbulence).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/05\/220525_goes16_waterVapor_turbulenceProbability_Sothern_Plains_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/05\/sp_tb-20220525_210117.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Upper-level Water Vapor (6.2 \u00b5m) images, with pilot reports of turbulence (cyan) &#8212; with and without an overlay of Turbulence Probability [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/05\/220525_goes16_waterVapor_turbulenceProbability_Sothern_Plains_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-16 (GOES-East) Upper-level Water Vapor (6.2 \u00b5m) images with pilot reports of turbulence &#8212; with and without contours of RAP40 model Maximum Wind Speed (above) showed an anomalously-deep 500 hPa trough over the Southern Plains, where there was an anomalously-strong 250 hPa jet streak developing along its forward (eastern) edge. A number of pilot reports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":46548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,74],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-46518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation","category-goes-16","tag-turbulence"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46518","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=46518"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46555,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46518\/revisions\/46555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}