{"id":9899,"date":"2012-03-04T23:59:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T23:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=9899"},"modified":"2012-03-06T01:30:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T01:30:57","slug":"tehuano-wind-event-following-the-02-march-2012-severe-weather-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/9899","title":{"rendered":"Tehuano wind event following the 02 March 2012 severe weather outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/03\/120304_tehuano_metars_fronts_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"METAR surface reports + tropical surface analyses + ASCAT scatterometer winds\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/03\/120304_tehuano_metars_fronts_anim.gif\" alt=\"METAR surface reports + tropical surface analyses + ASCAT scatterometer winds\" width=\"480\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">METAR surface reports + tropical surface analyses + ASCAT scatterometer winds<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The powerful mid-latitude cyclone that was responsible for the widespread outbreak of severe weather across parts of the eastern US on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/9875\" title=\"02 March 2012 severe weather outbreak\">02 March 2012<\/a><\/strong> spawned a southward surge of cold air (<strong><a title=\"OPC surface analyses\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/03\/120302-04_opc_surface_analysis_anim.gif\">OPC surface analyses<\/a><\/strong>) that traversed the Gulf of Mexico, crossed the mountainous terrain of far southern Mexico, and emerged across the Pacific Ocean as a strong gap wind event known as a <strong><a title=\"Tehuano wind (Wikipedia)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tehuano_wind\">Tehuano wind<\/a><\/strong>. AWIPS images showing METAR surface reports, Tropical surface analyses, and a pass of ASCAT scatterometer surface winds <strong><em>(above)<\/em><\/strong> showed that there was blowing sand reported at <strong><a title=\"Veracruz meteorogram\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/03\/120304_MMVR_SFCMG.GIF\">Veracruz<\/a><\/strong> <em>(station identifier MMVR),<\/em> with wind gusts to 45 knos at <strong><a title=\"Minatitlan meteorogram\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/03\/120304_MMMT_SFCMG.GIF\">Minatitlan<\/a><\/strong> <em>(station identifier MMMT)<\/em> and 35 knots at <strong><a title=\"Ixtepec meteorogram\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/03\/120304_MMIT_SFCMG.GIF\">Ixtepec<\/a><\/strong> <em>(station identifier MMIT)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data from <strong>04 March 2012<\/strong> <strong><em>(below; click image to play animation)<\/em><\/strong> showed the cloud arc that marked the leading edge of the Tehuano wind, and also showed the hazy signature of blowing dust that was being lofted southward across the Pacific coast and over the waters of the Gulf of Tehuantepec  (hence the name \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<strong><a title=\"Tehuantepecer (Wikipedia)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tehuantepecer\">Tehuantepecer<\/a><\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 given to this type of strong wind event).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/03\/120304_g13_vis_tehuano_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/03\/120304_G13_VIS_10.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A similar Tehuano wind event was seen on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/618\" title=\"08 March 2008 Tehuano wind event\">08 March 2008<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The powerful mid-latitude cyclone that was responsible for the widespread outbreak of severe weather across parts of the eastern US on 02 March 2012 spawned a southward surge of cold air (OPC surface analyses) that traversed the Gulf of Mexico, crossed the mountainous terrain of far southern Mexico, and emerged across the Pacific Ocean as [&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":[7,11,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-quality","category-goes-13","category-satellite-winds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9899","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=9899"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9901,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9899\/revisions\/9901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}