{"id":5866,"date":"2010-06-12T23:59:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T23:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=5866"},"modified":"2010-06-15T16:08:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T16:08:29","slug":"very-large-hail-in-the-texas-panhandle-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/5866","title":{"rendered":"Very large hail in the Texas Panhandle region"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/06\/100612_avhrr_ctt_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"POES AVHRR Cloud Top Temperature product\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/06\/100612_avhrr_ctt_anim.gif\" title=\"POES AVHRR Cloud Top Temperature product\" width=\"480\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">POES AVHRR Cloud Top Temperature product<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Severe thunderstorms that developed in the vicinity of a stationary frontal boundary over the northern Texas Panhandle region on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20100612.html\">12 June 2010<\/a><\/strong> produced unusually large hailstones <em>(some as large as 5.5 to 6.0 inches in diameter)<\/em> &#8212; additional details of this event can be found at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.srh.noaa.gov\/news\/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=ama&#038;storyid=53598&#038;source=0\">NWS Amarillo TX<\/a><\/strong> website. AWIPS images of the 1-km resolution POES AVHRR Cloud Top Temperature product <strong><em>(above)<\/em><\/strong> indicated that CTT values were as cold as -81\u00c2\u00ba C at 19:42 UTC and -80\u00c2\u00ba C at 20:07 UTC. By comparison, the coldest IR brightness temperatures seen on 4-km resolution GOES-13 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m imagery were -66\u00c2\u00ba C.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes_r\/proving-ground\/GOES_CINowcast.html\">University of Wisconsin Convective Initiation<\/a><\/strong> product <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong>  flagged that particular area of developing  convection at 18:40 UTC &#8212; about an hour before it produced the first report of 1.0 inch diameter hail at 19:40 UTC (and almost 2 hours before the report of 6.0 inch diameter hail at 20:32 UTC):<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/06\/100612_g13_ir_ci_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GOES-13 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images (grayscale) + UW Convective Initiation product (colored boxes)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/06\/100612_g13_ir_ci_anim.gif\" title=\"GOES-13 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images (grayscale) + UW Convective Initiation product (colored boxes)\" width=\"480\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-13 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images (grayscale) + UW Convective Initiation product (colored boxes)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Severe thunderstorms that developed in the vicinity of a stationary frontal boundary over the northern Texas Panhandle region on 12 June 2010 produced unusually large hailstones (some as large as 5.5 to 6.0 inches in diameter) &#8212; additional details of this event can be found at the NWS Amarillo TX website. AWIPS images of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,42,11,26,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avhrr","category-convective-initiation","category-goes-13","category-poes","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5866","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=5866"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5873,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5866\/revisions\/5873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}