{"id":66217,"date":"2025-08-01T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=66217"},"modified":"2025-08-04T23:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T23:09:06","slug":"mesoscale-convective-vortex-from-southeast-montana-helps-to-force-the-development-of-a-mesoscale-convective-system-over-northwest-south-dakota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/66217","title":{"rendered":"Mesoscale Convective Vortex helps to force the development of a Mesoscale Convective System over northwest South Dakota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 1323px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/08\/goeseast_abi_radc_true_color_night_s20250801120118_e20250802005118_f155.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/08\/goeseast_abi_radc_true_color_night_20250801214618.png\" width=\"1313\" height=\"751\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">5-minute GOES-19 Nighttime Microphysics RGB + daytime True Color RGB images, from 1201 UTC on 01 August to 0051 UTC on 02 August [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/QuickGuide_GOESR_NtMicroRGB_Final_20191206_acc.pdf\"><strong>Nighttime Microphysics RGB<\/strong><\/a> + daytime True Color images from the <a href=\"https:\/\/geosphere.ssec.wisc.edu\/#playing:true;coordinate:-348990,146211;zoom:1.4;num_frames:40;\"><strong>CSPP GeoSphere<\/strong><\/a> site <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed a remnant <a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/trainings\/visit\/training_sessions\/mesoscale_convective_vortices\/\"><strong>Mesoscale Convective Vortex<\/strong><\/a> (MCV) that migrated eastward from southeastern Montana to northwestern South Dakota &#8212; where it helped to force the rapid development of a slow-moving Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) during the afternoon hours on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20250801.html\"><strong>01 August 2025<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/08\/G19_VIS_SD_MCV_SVR_01AUG2025_loop_GOES-19_2025213_204555_2025214_012755.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/08\/G19_VIS_SD_MCV_SVR_01AUG2025_B2_2025214_000755_GOES-19_0001PANEL_FRAME00203.GIF\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">1-minute GOES-19 Red Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images with time-matched (+\/- 3 minutes) SPC Storm Reports plotted in red, from 2045 UTC on 01 August to 0127 UTC on 02 August [click to play animated GIF]<\/p><\/div>The MCS eventually began to produce periodic hail and damaging winds after 2100 UTC, as shown by 1-minute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov\/status\/satellite\/\"><strong>Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a> GOES-19 Visible images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> and Infrared images <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> that included time-matched plots of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/climo\/reports\/250801_rpts.html\"><strong>SPC Storm Reports<\/strong><\/a>. The visible imagery revealed numerous pulses of overshooting tops, as well as intricate patterns of cloud-top gravity waves.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/08\/G19_IR_SD_MCV_SVR_01AUG2025_loop_GOES-19_2025213_204555_2025214_012755.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/08\/G19_IR_SD_MCV_SVR_01AUG2025_B13_2025214_000755_GOES-19_0001PANEL_FRAME00203.GIF\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">1-minute GOES-19 Clean Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images with time-matched (+\/- 3 minutes) SPC Storm Reports plotted in blue, from 2045 UTC on 01 August to 0127 UTC on 02 August [click to play animated GIF]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Nighttime Microphysics RGB + daytime True Color images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) showed a remnant Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV) that migrated eastward from southeastern Montana to northwestern South Dakota &#8212; where it helped to force the rapid development of a slow-moving Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) during the afternoon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":66230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,45,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-19","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66217","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=66217"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66244,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66217\/revisions\/66244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}