{"id":58814,"date":"2024-04-26T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=58814"},"modified":"2024-05-01T03:05:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T03:05:11","slug":"severe-thunderstorms-across-nebraska-and-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/58814","title":{"rendered":"Severe thunderstorms across Nebraska and Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1-minute GOES-16 Visible\/Infrared Sandwich RGB images with time-matched Local Storm Reports plotted in yellow, from 1700-2320 UTC on 26 April [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>1-minute\u00a0Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0GOES-16\u00a0(GOES-East)<\/em>\u00a0Visible\/Infrared\u00a0Sandwich RGB<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0images\u00a0(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed thunderstorms that produced tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds (SPC Storm Reports<\/strong><\/a>) across eastern Nebraska and western Iowa on\u00a026 April 2024<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

1-minute GOES-16 Visible\/Infrared Sandwich RGB images with an overlay of GLM<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Flash Extent Density<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the lightning activity associated with this convection — which included some notable lightning jumps as tornadic thunderstorms moved through the Omaha area (producing the EF3-rated Elkhorn tornado) beginning about 2040 UTC.<\/p>\n

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1-minute GOES-16 Visible\/Infrared Sandwich RGB images with an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density and time-matched Local Storm Reports plotted in yellow, from 1700-2320 UTC on 26 April [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>A larger-scale view using 1-minute GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (below)<\/strong><\/em> also showed the storms that affected western and central Iowa after sunset. The coldest infrared brightness temperatures of thunderstorm overshooting tops were around -60\u00baC (darker black enhancement).<\/p>\n

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1-minute GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images with time-matched Local Storm Reports plotted in white, from 1630 UTC on 26 April to 0202 UTC on 27 April [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cursor sample of select Tornado Local Storm Reports across eastern Nebraska and western Iowa, from 1955-2305 UTC on 26 April [click to play animated GIF]<\/p><\/div>Cursor samples displayed a few select Tornado Local Storm Reports across eastern Nebraska and western Iowa from 1955-2305 UTC on 26 April (above)<\/em><\/strong> and across western and central Iowa from 0025-0159 UTC on 27 April (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Cursor sample of select Tornado Local Storm Reports across western and central Iowa, from 0025-0159 UTC on 27 April [click to play animated GIF]<\/p><\/div>A larger-scale view of 1-minute GOES-16 Infrared images that included an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density is shown below.<\/p>\n

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1-minute GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images with an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density and time-matched Local Storm Reports plotted in white, from 1630 UTC on 26 April to 0202 UTC on 27 April [click to play animated GIF |\u00a0 MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1-minute\u00a0Mesoscale Domain Sector\u00a0GOES-16\u00a0(GOES-East)\u00a0Visible\/Infrared\u00a0Sandwich RGB\u00a0images\u00a0(above) showed thunderstorms that produced tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds (SPC Storm Reports) across eastern Nebraska and western Iowa on\u00a026 April 2024. 1-minute GOES-16 Visible\/Infrared Sandwich RGB images with an overlay of GLM\u00a0Flash Extent Density\u00a0(below) showed the lightning activity associated with this convection — which included some notable lightning jumps as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":58838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,74,30,45,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glm","category-goes-16","category-lightning","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58814","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=58814"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58871,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58814\/revisions\/58871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}