{"id":51731,"date":"2023-04-15T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=51731"},"modified":"2023-04-18T03:08:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T03:08:06","slug":"severe-thunderstorms-across-the-mid-south-and-midwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/51731","title":{"rendered":"Severe thunderstorms across the Mid-South and Midwest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GOES-16 Total Precipitable Water, Lifted Index and Convective Available Potential Energy derived products [click to play animated GIF | MP4]<\/p><\/div>A strong cold front (surface analyses<\/strong><\/a>) was moving eastward from the southern Plains toward the lower Mississippi Valley on 15 April 2023<\/strong><\/a> — GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> Total Precipitable Water<\/strong><\/a> and Lifted Index \/ Convective Available Potential Energy Derived Stability Indices<\/strong><\/a> (above)<\/strong><\/em> revealed a broad corridor of moisture and instability ahead of the cold front.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images, with time-matched SPC Storm Reports plotted in red [click to play animated GIF |\u00a0MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a> GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images centered over southwestern Missouri (above) <\/strong><\/em>included time-matched (+\/- 3 minutes) plots of SPC Storm Reports<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 which showed thunderstorms that produced hail as large as 4.00 inches in diameter and wind gusts as high as 97 mph in Missouri.
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The corresponding 1-minute GOES-16 \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images with plots of time-matched SPC Storm Reports\u00a0(below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that some of the thunderstorm overshooting tops exhibited infrared brightness temperatures in the -65 to -70\u00baC range (darker red to black enhancement).<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images, with time-matched SPC Storm Reports plotted in blue [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>As the thunderstorms moved farther northeast, one tornado produced EF1\/EF2 damage in Missouri — with another cluster of weak tornadoes in general vicinity of St Louis. 1-minute GOES-16 Visible and Infrared images centered over St Louis are shown below.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images, with time-matched SPC Storm Reports plotted in red [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>
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GOES-16 \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images, with time-matched SPC Storm Reports plotted in blue [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A strong cold front (surface analyses) was moving eastward from the southern Plains toward the lower Mississippi Valley on 15 April 2023 — GOES-16 (GOES-East) Total Precipitable Water and Lifted Index \/ Convective Available Potential Energy Derived Stability Indices (above) revealed a broad corridor of moisture and instability ahead of the cold front. 1-minute Mesoscale […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":51760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51731","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=51731"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51764,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51731\/revisions\/51764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}