{"id":604,"date":"2008-02-13T20:19:56","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T20:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/604"},"modified":"2008-02-15T02:50:25","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T02:50:25","slug":"ice-storm-in-southeastern-kansas-and-southern-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/604","title":{"rendered":"Ice storm in southeastern Kansas and southern Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/02\/080213_modis_anim.gif\" title=\"MODIS visible + snow\/ice images (Animated GIF)\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/02\/080213_modis_anim.gif\" title=\"MODIS visible + snow\/ice images (Animated GIF)\" alt=\"MODIS visible + snow\/ice images (Animated GIF)\" align=\"middle\" height=\"459\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A significant ice storm affected parts of extreme southeastern Kansas and southern Missouri on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20080211.html\" title=\"11 February 2008 daily weather map\" target=\"_blank\">11<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20080212.html\" title=\"12 February 2008 daily weather map\" target=\"_blank\">12 February 2008<\/a><\/strong>, leaving an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crh.noaa.gov\/crnews\/display_story.php?wfo=sgf&amp;storyid=12970&amp;source=0\" title=\"NWS Springfield MO ice\/sleet storm story\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>accrual of ice more than 1 inch thick in parts of Missouri<\/strong><\/a>. AWIPS images of the visible and 1.6\u00c2\u00b5m near-IR &#8220;snow\/ice&#8221; channels <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em>  revealed the extent of the coverage of snow and ice that remained a day later on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20080213.html\" title=\"13 February 2008 daily weather map\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>13 February 2008<\/strong><\/a>. Note the very <em>dark<\/em> signal on the snow\/ice channel image in Kansas\/Missouri &#8212; even though there was much less <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nohrsc.nws.gov\/interactive\/html\/map.html?mode=pan&amp;zoom=&amp;center_x=++-88.38&amp;center_y=+++36.05&amp;ql=station&amp;var=snow_depth_obs_24_h&amp;dy=2008&amp;dm=2&amp;dd=13&amp;dh=12&amp;snap=1&amp;o9=1&amp;o12=1&amp;o13=1&amp;lbl=m&amp;min_x=-97.500416666658&amp;min_y=35.730000686641&amp;max_x=-82.275416666658&amp;max_y=50.95500068664&amp;coord_x=++-88.38&amp;coord_y=+++36.05&amp;zbox_n=43.54803818664048&amp;zbox_s=35.950763186640984&amp;zbox_e=-88.464379166658&amp;zbox_w=-97.27965416665799&amp;metric=0&amp;bgvar=dem&amp;width=1000&amp;height=1000&amp;nw=1000&amp;nh=1000&amp;type=0&amp;js=1&amp;uc=0\" title=\"NOHRSC snow depth data\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>snow cover<\/strong><\/a> there <em>(1-5 inches)<\/em> compared to areas farther north in eastern Iowa <em>(where there was as much as 12-17 inches of snow on the ground),<\/em> the fact that much of the affected portions of southeastern Kansas and southern Missouri were also coated with a thick layer of ice made that region exhibit a much <strong>stronger<\/strong> (and therefore <strong>darker<\/strong>) &#8220;snow\/ice absorption signal&#8221;. In contrast to the darker snow\/ice cover, supercooled water droplet clouds appear much <em>brighter<\/em>  on the MODIS snow\/ice channel image.<\/p>\n<p>A slightly closer view using AWIPS images of the MODIS Land Surface Temperature (LST) and MODIS snow\/ice channel images <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed that  LST values were about 10\u00c2\u00ba F colder <em>(darker green enhancement)<\/em> in the swath of snow\/ice compared to the surrounding bare ground areas. Note that the &#8220;cloud mask&#8221; employed by the LST product does tend to produce some false cloud features <em>(black pixels)<\/em>  in portions of the image where large gradients exist (for example, along the northern edge of the snow\/ice swath).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/02\/080213_modis_2_anim.gif\" title=\"MODIS land surface temperature + snow\/ice images (Animated GIF)\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/02\/080213_modis_2_anim.gif\" title=\"MODIS land surface temperature + snow\/ice images (Animated GIF)\" alt=\"MODIS land surface temperature + snow\/ice images (Animated GIF)\" align=\"middle\" height=\"459\" width=\"481\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/modis-today\/index.php?satellite=t1&amp;product=true_color&amp;date=2008_02_13_044\" title=\"MODIS true color image (SSEC MODIS Today)\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MODIS true color image<\/strong><\/a> of the area <em><strong>(below, viewed using Google Earth)<\/strong><\/em> shows that the snow\/ice storm affected a good deal of the Interstate 44 corridor in southern Missouri (between Tulsa, Oklahoma and Saint Louis, Missouri).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/02\/080213_modis_truecolor_google.jpg\" title=\"MODIS true color image (Google Earth)\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/02\/080213_modis_truecolor_google.jpg\" title=\"MODIS true color image (Google Earth)\" alt=\"MODIS true color image (Google Earth)\" align=\"middle\" height=\"401\" width=\"486\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A significant ice storm affected parts of extreme southeastern Kansas and southern Missouri on 11&#8211;12 February 2008, leaving an accrual of ice more than 1 inch thick in parts of Missouri. AWIPS images of the visible and 1.6\u00c2\u00b5m near-IR &#8220;snow\/ice&#8221; channels (above) revealed the extent of the coverage of snow and ice that remained a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-earth","category-modis","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","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=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}