{"id":673,"date":"2008-06-24T23:59:49","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T23:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/673"},"modified":"2008-06-25T18:52:54","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T18:52:54","slug":"mesoscale-convective-vortex-in-nebraska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/673","title":{"rendered":"Mesoscale Convective Vortex in Nebraska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/06\/080624_g12_ir_anim.gif\" title=\"GOES-12 10.7\u00c2\u00b5m IR 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\/080624_g12_ir_anim.gif\" title=\"GOES-12 10.7\u00c2\u00b5m IR images (Animated GIF)\" alt=\"GOES-12 10.7\u00c2\u00b5m IR images (Animated GIF)\" align=\"middle\" height=\"361\" width=\"481\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A large mesoscale convective system (MCS) developed over Nebraska during the pre-dawn hours  on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20080624.html\" title=\"24 June 2008 daily weather map\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>24 June 2008<\/strong><\/a>, and AWIPS images of the GOES-12 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the extensive coverage of very cold cloud top temperatures <em>(-60 to -70\u00c2\u00ba  C, red to black color enhancement)<\/em> associated with this convective activity. This MCS was responsible for some weak tornadoes and small hail across parts of Nebraska (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/climo\/reports\/080623_rpts.html\" title=\"SPC storm reports\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SPC storm reports<\/strong><\/a>), but the main impact was heavy rains that produced flooding &#8212; in Nebraska, <strong>3.70 inches<\/strong> was reported at Gibbons, and <strong>2.10 inches<\/strong> fell at Waterloo in a 1-hour period.<\/p>\n<p>As the MCS moved eastward and began to decay during the daytime hours over Iowa and Missouri, the cyclonic circulation of a mesoscale convective vortex (MCV) became apparent over southeastern Nebraska on both the GOES-12 IR imagery above, and also on GOES-12 visible channel imagery from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aos.wisc.edu\/weather\/wx_obs\/Satellite.html\" title=\"UW-Madison AOS satellite imagery site\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>UW-Madison AOS<\/strong><\/a> site <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>. This MCV apparently played a role in the development of new convection later in the day over southeastern Nebraska, which produced hail up to 1.0 inch in diameter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/06\/080624_g12_vis_anim.gif\" title=\"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\/080624_g12_vis_anim.gif\" title=\"GOES-12 visible images (Animated GIF)\" alt=\"GOES-12 visible images (Animated GIF)\" align=\"middle\" height=\"480\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large mesoscale convective system (MCS) developed over Nebraska during the pre-dawn hours on 24 June 2008, and AWIPS images of the GOES-12 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel (above) showed the extensive coverage of very cold cloud top temperatures (-60 to -70\u00c2\u00ba C, red to black color enhancement) associated with this convective activity. This MCS was [&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":[19,16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-12","category-heavy-rain-flooding","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","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=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}