{"id":51448,"date":"2023-03-31T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=51448"},"modified":"2024-03-31T18:27:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T18:27:46","slug":"widespread-outbreak-of-severe-thunderstorms-across-the-midwest-and-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/51448","title":{"rendered":"Widespread outbreak of severe thunderstorms across the Midwest and South"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GOES-16 Total Precipitable Water, Lifted Index and Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) derived products [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>With a strong midlatitude cyclone centered over Iowa on 31 March 2023<\/strong><\/a>, the Storm Prediction Center<\/strong><\/a> (SPC) outlined 2 areas of relatively rare High Risk<\/strong><\/a> for severe weather — and GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> Total Precipitable Water<\/strong><\/a> along with the Lifted Index (LI) and Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) Derived Stability Indices<\/strong><\/a> (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed that a corridor of moisture and instability was in place along and ahead of the primary cold front (surface analyses<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n

1-minute\u00a0Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a> GOES-16 \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images\u00a0(below)<\/strong><\/em> included plots of time-matched (+\/- 3 minutes)\u00a0SPC Storm Reports<\/strong><\/a> during the period from 1615 UTC on 31 March to 1137 UTC on 01 April.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images, with time-matched SPC Storm Reports plotted in cyan [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>One event of note was the EF3-rated tornado that affected Little Rock, Arkansas<\/strong><\/a> — GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images (below)<\/strong><\/em> included time-matched SPC Storm Reports.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m, top) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m, bottom) images, with time-matched SPC Storm Reports plotted in red\/cyan [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>1-minute GOES-16 Visible\/Infrared Sandwich RGB<\/strong><\/a> images (below)<\/strong><\/em> included polygons of Severe Thunderstorm and Tornado Warnings — note that at one point a bold Tornado Emergency was issued.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 Visible\/Infrared Sandwich RGB images, with polygons of Severe Thunderstorm and Tornado Warnings plotted in yellow\/red [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Farther to the north, 1-minute GOES-16 Visible images (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the widespread severe weather across the Midwest during the daytime hours.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m, top) images, with time-matched SPC Storm Reports plotted in red [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>1-minute GOES-16 Visible\/Infrared Sandwich RGB images (below)<\/strong><\/em> included plots of time-matched Local Storm Reports — showing the storm which produced an EF4-rated tornado that moved from Wapello into Johnson County in eastern Iowa (NWS Quad Cities summary<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 Visible\/Infrared Sandwich RGB images, with time-matched Local Storm Reports plotted in red [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With a strong midlatitude cyclone centered over Iowa on 31 March 2023, the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) outlined 2 areas of relatively rare High Risk for severe weather — and GOES-16 (GOES-East) Total Precipitable Water along with the Lifted Index (LI) and Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) Derived Stability Indices (above) showed that a corridor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":51475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,45,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","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\/51448","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=51448"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58048,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51448\/revisions\/58048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}