{"id":52293,"date":"2023-05-13T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=52293"},"modified":"2023-10-13T19:45:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T19:45:39","slug":"large-hail-and-heavy-rainfall-in-the-st-louis-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/52293","title":{"rendered":"Large hail and heavy rainfall in the St. Louis area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 1725px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/05\/230513_goes16_visibleInfraredSandwichRGB_localStormReports_STL_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/05\/stl_rgb-20230513_191554.png\" width=\"1715\" height=\"830\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Visible\/Infrared Sandwich RGB images, with Local Storm Reports plotted in cyan [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/05\/230513_goes16_visibleInfraredSandwichRGB_localStormReports_STL_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>1-minute\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov\/status\/satellite\/\"><strong>Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0GOES-16\u00a0<em>(GOES-East)<\/em>\u00a0Visible\/Infrared\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov\/goes\/documents\/SandwichProduct.pdf\"><strong>Sandwich RGB<\/strong><\/a> images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed thunderstorms that produced a few clusters of large hail (up to 3.00 inches in diameter: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/climo\/reports\/230513_rpts.html\"><strong>SPC Storm Reports<\/strong><\/a>) in the St. Louis, Missouri area on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20230513.html\"><strong>13 May 2023<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There were also several reports of heavy rainfall &#8212; GOES-16 Visible\/Infrared Sandwich RGB images at 1956 UTC UTC, 2100 UTC and 2124 UTC <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> include a cursor sampling of the associated Rainfall Rate (red), Cloud Top Phase (yellow) and Cloud Top Height (green) Level 2 Derived Products over the location of Local Storm Reports of Heavy Rainfall. Cursor readout values of Rainfall Rate remained in the 1.85-1.90 inch\/hour range during the 20-25 minutes prior to each of these 3 heavy rainfall Local Storm Reports.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 1930px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/05\/230513_1956utc_goes16_visibleInfraredSandwichRGB_L2products_readout.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/05\/230513_1956utc_goes16_visibleInfraredSandwichRGB_L2products_readout.png\" width=\"1920\" height=\"962\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Visible\/Infrared Sandwich RGB image at 1956 UTC, with cursor sampling of the associated Rainfall Rate (red), Cloud Top Phase (yellow) and Cloud Top Height (green) Level 2 Derived Products [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 1930px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/05\/230513_2100utc_goes16_visibleInfraredSandwichRGB_L2products_readout.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/05\/230513_2100utc_goes16_visibleInfraredSandwichRGB_L2products_readout.png\" width=\"1920\" height=\"962\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Visible\/Infrared Sandwich RGB image at 2100 UTC, with cursor sampling of the associated Rainfall Rate (red), Cloud Top Phase (yellow) and Cloud Top Height (green) Level 2 Derived Products [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 1930px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/05\/230513_2124utc_goes16_visibleInfraredSandwichRGB_L2products_readout.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/05\/230513_2124utc_goes16_visibleInfraredSandwichRGB_L2products_readout.png\" width=\"1920\" height=\"962\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Visible\/Infrared Sandwich RGB image at 2124 UTC, with cursor sampling of the associated Rainfall Rate (red), Cloud Top Phase (yellow) and Cloud Top Height (green) Level 2 Derived Products [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>As discussed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VLBKDh3_M78&amp;list=PLJzZC8w9vPV3kIBVNmQYzZfHO6vGZeNhN&amp;index=1\"><strong>this TOWR-S Satellite Book Club presentation<\/strong><\/a>, beginning with TOWR-S RPM 22 various types of \u201cGOES RGBs w\/Derived Product Readouts\u201d are available in AWIPS under\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/05\/230510_L2_menu_1.png\"><strong>Satellite -&gt; Local Menu Items<\/strong><\/a>, which includes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/05\/230510_L2_menu_2.png\"><strong>these options<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1-minute\u00a0Mesoscale Domain Sector\u00a0GOES-16\u00a0(GOES-East)\u00a0Visible\/Infrared\u00a0Sandwich RGB images (above) showed thunderstorms that produced a few clusters of large hail (up to 3.00 inches in diameter: SPC Storm Reports) in the St. Louis, Missouri area on 13 May 2023. There were also several reports of heavy rainfall &#8212; GOES-16 Visible\/Infrared Sandwich RGB images at 1956 UTC UTC, 2100 UTC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":52295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,151,45,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-l2_readouts","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52293","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=52293"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52308,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52293\/revisions\/52308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}