{"id":70170,"date":"2026-04-27T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=70170"},"modified":"2026-05-02T03:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:25:10","slug":"30-second-goes-19-images-of-severe-thunderstorms-in-the-st-louis-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/70170","title":{"rendered":"30-second GOES-19 images of severe thunderstorms in the St. Louis area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/04\/G19_VIS_30SEC_MO_IL_SVR_27APR2026_loop_GOES-19_2026117_183029_2026117_235956.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/04\/G19_VIS_30SEC_MO_IL_SVR_27APR2026_B2_2026117_233726_GOES-19_0001PANEL_FRAME00595.GIF\" alt=\"30-second GOES-19 Visible images with time-matched (+\/- 3 minutes) SPC Storm Reports plotted in red, from 1830-2359 UTC on 27 April [click to play animated GIF]\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">30-second GOES-19 Visible images with time-matched (+\/- 3 minutes) SPC Storm Reports plotted in red, from 1830-2359 UTC on 27 April [click to play animated GIF]<\/p><\/div>A partial overlap of two GOES-19 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov\/status\/satellite\/\"><strong>Mesoscale Domain Sectors<\/strong><\/a> provided 30-second Visible images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and Infrared images <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showing severe thunderstorms that produced two isolated tornadoes, hail as large as <a><strong>4.00 inches<\/strong><\/a> in diameter, and wind gusts to <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/04\/260427_2348utc_goes19_visible_infrared_anim.gif\"><strong>60 mph<\/strong><\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/climo\/reports\/260427_rpts.html\"><strong>SPC Storm Reports<\/strong><\/a>) in the St. Louis, Missouri area on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/climo\/reports\/260427_rpts.html\"><strong>27 April 2026<\/strong><\/a>. These particular events occurred within an area that SPC had highlighted as having an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/outlook\/archive\/2026\/day1otlk_20260427_1630.html\"><strong>Moderate Risk<\/strong><\/a> for all 3 modes of convective severe weather.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/04\/G19_IR_30SEC_MO_IL_SVR_27APR2026_loop_GOES-19_2026117_183029_2026117_235956.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/04\/G19_IR_30SEC_MO_IL_SVR_27APR2026_B13_2026117_233726_GOES-19_0001PANEL_FRAME00595.GIF\" alt=\"30-second GOES-19 Infrared images with time-matched (+\/- 3 minutes) SPC Storm Reports plotted in blue, from 1830-2359 UTC on 27 April [click to play animated GIF]\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">30-second GOES-19 Infrared images with time-matched (+\/- 3 minutes) SPC Storm Reports plotted in blue, from 1830-2359 UTC on 27 April [click to play animated GIF]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A partial overlap of two GOES-19 (GOES-East)\u00a0Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided 30-second Visible images (above)\u00a0and Infrared images (below) showing severe thunderstorms that produced two isolated tornadoes, hail as large as 4.00 inches in diameter, and wind gusts to 60 mph (SPC Storm Reports) in the St. Louis, Missouri area on 27 April 2026. These particular events [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":70172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-19","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70170","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=70170"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70204,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70170\/revisions\/70204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}