{"id":59532,"date":"2024-05-29T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=59532"},"modified":"2024-05-31T17:01:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T17:01:32","slug":"hail-swath-across-the-texas-panhandle-plains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/59532","title":{"rendered":"Hail swath across the Texas Panhandle Plains"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GOES-16 Nighttime Microphysics RGB images [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n

GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> Nighttime Microphysics RGB<\/strong><\/a> images (above)<\/em><\/strong> showed a thunderstorm that moved southeast from the New Mexico \/ Texas border across the southern Texas Panhandle Plains on 29 May 2024. A narrow northwest-to-southeast oriented hail swath produced by this storm\u00a0 — from south of Clovis, New Mexico (KCVN) to south of Lubbock, Texas (KLBB) — showed up as pale shades of beige.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images, with and without an overlay of the Land Surface Temperature derived product (in cloud-free areas) [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n

GOES-16 \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images with\/without an overlay of the hourly\u00a0Land Surface Temperature<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(LST) derived product (in cloud-free areas)\u00a0(above)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that the LST within the hail swath was as much as 10-12\u00baF cooler than adjacent bare ground (even after sunrise). A cursor sample of LST values within and immediately adjacent to the hail swath at 1401 UTC is shown below.<\/p>\n

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Cursor sample of Land Surface Temperature values (\u00baF) within and immediately adjacent to the hail swath at 1401 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n

In a comparison of GOES-16 Infrared, Infrared + Land Surface Temperature, Day Land Cloud RGB<\/strong><\/a> and CIMSS Natural Color RGB<\/strong><\/a> images at 1401 UTC (below)<\/strong><\/em> note that the hail swath signature was not evident in the CIMSS Natural Color RGB image.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 Infrared, Infrared + Land Surface Temperature, Day Land Cloud RGB and CIMSS Natural Color RGB images at 1401 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n

Hat tip to NWS Midland and NWS Lubbock for pointing out this interesting feature!<\/p>\n\n\n

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*NERD POST*

Our satellites captured a swath of hail that fell from a t'storm across the TX Panhandle!

Tracks of real-time estimated hail are in the blues and greens and then the satellite shows a thin yellow-organe line detailing the ice that has collected on the ground! #txwx<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/apL4ICCnau<\/a><\/p>— NWS Midland (@NWSMidland) May 29, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>