{"id":670,"date":"2008-06-18T23:59:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T23:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/670"},"modified":"2008-06-24T02:23:02","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T02:23:02","slug":"goes-11-and-goes-12-in-rapid-scan-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/670","title":{"rendered":"GOES-11 and GOES-12 in Rapid Scan Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/06\/080618_g11_g12_vis_anim.gif\" title=\"GOES-11 + GOES-12 visible images (Animated GIF)\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/06\/080618_g11_g12_vis_anim.gif\" title=\"GOES-11 + GOES-12 visible images (Animated GIF)\" alt=\"GOES-11 + GOES-12 visible images (Animated GIF)\" align=\"middle\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both GOES-11 <em>(GOES-West)<\/em> and GOES-12 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> were placed into <a href=\"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/visit\/rso3.html\" title=\"Rapid Scan Operations (VISIT lesson)\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rapid Scan Operations (RSO)<\/strong><\/a> during the afternoon and early evening on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20080618.html\" title=\"18 June 2008 daily weather map\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>18 June 2008<\/strong><\/a>, to monitor the development of severe thunderstorms across the central US (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/climo\/reports\/080618_rpts.html\" title=\"SPC storm reports (18 June 2008)\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SPC storm reports<\/strong><\/a>). In RSO mode, images are available at 5-7 minute intervals (instead of the usual 15 minute intervals for standard operations) &#8212; however, the RSO image times are not exactly the same for GOES-11 and GOES-12.  A side-by-side comparison of GOES-11  and GOES-12 visible channel images centered on Bismarck, North Dakota <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the formation and intensification of thunderstorms that produced hail as large as <strong>2.75 inches<\/strong> in diameter at 22:48 UTC and <strong>4.25 inches<\/strong> in diameter at 00:22 UTC <em>(both times at a location between Bismarck <strong>KBIS<\/strong> and Garrison <strong>KN60<\/strong>),<\/em> and a tornado around 00:25 UTC <em>(just west of Bismarck <strong>KBIS<\/strong>)<\/em>. Both the GOES-11 and GOES-12 images are displayed in their native satellite projections, so the cloud features (and the area shown) appear a bit different due to the differing satellite viewing angles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both GOES-11 (GOES-West) and GOES-12 (GOES-East) were placed into Rapid Scan Operations (RSO) during the afternoon and early evening on 18 June 2008, to monitor the development of severe thunderstorms across the central US (SPC storm reports). In RSO mode, images are available at 5-7 minute intervals (instead of the usual 15 minute intervals for [&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":[18,19,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-11","category-goes-12","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","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=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}