{"id":70286,"date":"2026-05-06T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=70286"},"modified":"2026-05-09T01:54:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T01:54:27","slug":"30-second-goes-19-infrared-imagery-of-severe-thunderstorms-in-mississippi-and-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/70286","title":{"rendered":"30-second GOES-19 Infrared imagery of severe thunderstorms in Mississippi and Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/05\/G19_IR_30SEC_MS_AL_SVR_06MAY2026_loop_GOES-19_2026126_213125_2026127_021255.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/05\/G19_IR_30SEC_MS_AL_SVR_06MAY2026_B13_2026127_010028_GOES-19_0001PANEL_FRAME00419.GIF\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">30-second GOES-19 Infrared images with time-matched (+\/- 3 minutes) plots oi SPC Storm Reports, from 2131 UTC on 06 May to 0212 UTC on 07 May [click to play animated GIF]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Overlapping portions of 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided GOES-19 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> imagery at 30-second intervals &#8212; and Infrared images with plots of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/climo\/reports\/260506_rpts.html\"><strong>SPC Storm Reports<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed thunderstorms that produced tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds across parts of southern and central Mississippi and Alabama from the late afternoon to the early evening hours on 06 May 2026. Pronounced <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.ametsoc.org\/doi\/10.1175\/WAF1022.1\"><strong>enhanced-V<\/strong><\/a> storm-top signatures were exhibited by several of the severe thunderstorms. Multiple long-track tornadoes (one of which was <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/05\/260507_kjan_pns.text\"><strong>EF3-rated<\/strong><\/a>) moved across southern Mississippi, and were responsible for widespread damage and several injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>1-minute GOES-19 Infrared images <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> included plots of NWS Warning polygons &#8212; which revealed a few Tornado Emergency (bold red) polygons in southwestern Mississippi (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/05\/260507_0000utc_tornadoEmergency.png\"><strong>0000 UTC<\/strong><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/05\/260507_0010utc_tornadoEmergency.png\"><strong>0010 UTC<\/strong><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/05\/260507_0056utc_tornadoEmergency.png\"><strong>0056 UTC<\/strong><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/05\/260507_0105utc_tornadoEmergency.png\"><strong>0105 UTC<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 3002px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/05\/260506_goes19_infrared_spcSstormReports_warningPolygons_MS_AL.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/05\/260507_0105utc_tornadoEmergency.png\" width=\"2992\" height=\"1674\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">1-minute GOES-19 Infrared images with plots of SPC Storm Reports and NWS Warning polygons, from 2116 UTC on 06 May to 0215 UTC on 07 May [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overlapping portions of 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided GOES-19 (GOES-East) imagery at 30-second intervals &#8212; and Infrared images with plots of SPC Storm Reports (above) showed thunderstorms that produced tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds across parts of southern and central Mississippi and Alabama from the late afternoon to the early evening hours on 06 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":70288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70286","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\/70286","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=70286"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70324,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70286\/revisions\/70324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}