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Hail-producing thunderstorm at Kandahar, Afghanistan

EUMETSAT Meteosat-7 0.7 µm visible channel images (click image to play animation) A thunderstorm produced golf-ball-size hail that reportedly lasted up to 30 minutes at Kandahar, Afghanistan on 23...

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Mesoscale Convective System in the Gulf of Mexico

Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 µm IR channel and 0.7 µm Day/Night Band images (with overlays of cloud-to-ground lightning strikes) A large nocturnal mesoscale convective system (MCS) was moving eastward across...

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Convective Downbursts and Heatbursts in Wisconsin

GOES-13 Sounder Derived Lifted Index (click image to play animation) Strong convection in the late afternoon/early evening produced wind damage and heat bursts over southern Wisconsin late in the day...

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Tornado outbreak in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area in north Texas

GOES-15 (left) and GOES-13 (right) 0.63 µm visible channel images (click image to play animation) An outbreak of tornadoes across the Dallas/Ft. Worth area in north Texas on 15 May 2013 produced up to...

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GOES-15 Super Rapid Scan Operations (SRSO) imagery

GOES-15 (left) SRSO visible images and GOES-13 (right) RSO visible images (click image to play animation) The GOES-15 (GOES-West) satellite was placed into Super Rapid Scan Operations (SRSO) on 18 May...

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Moore, Oklahoma tornado

GOES-15 (left) and GOES-13 (right) 0.63 µm visible channel images (click image to play animation) A devastating tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma just after 20:00 UTC or 3:00 PM local time on 20 May 2013,...

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Severe weather in the Oklahoma City area

GOES-14 sounder Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) product (click image to play animation) Only 11 days after the devastating EF-5 tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma, another round of severe...

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GOES-14 Super Rapid Scan (1-minute interval) images

GOES-14 0.63 µm visible channel images (click image to play animation) The GOES-14 satellite was placed into Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (SRSOR) mode to monitor the development of severe...

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GOES-14 Super Rapid Scan (1-minute interval) images of eastern US low-end...

GOES-14 0.63 µm visible channel images (click image to play animation) For the second consecutive day, the GOES-14 satellite was placed into Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (SRSOR) mode to...

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Tornado at Denver International Airport

Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 um visible image and 11.45 um IR channel image (with overlay of METAR surface reports) A tornado touched down just east of the Denver International Airport concourses at 20:21 UTC...

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Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV) in southern California

Suomi NPP VIIRS 0,7 µm Day/Night Band and 11.45 µm IR channel images A comparison of AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 µm Day/Night Band and 11.45 µm IR channel data (above) showed a large mesoscale...

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The Memphis Derecho of July 22 2003

GOES-12 10.7 µm IR imagery (Click Image to play animation) On the morning of July 22, 2003, a strong derecho moved through metropolitan Memphis, TN, with winds exceeding hurricane-force. The most...

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Convective outflow boundary initiates new convection over Kansas

GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel images (click image to play animation) AWIPS images of 1-km resolution GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed an undular bore...

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Severe thunderstorms in northwestern Kansas

GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel images with overshooting top detection icons (click image to play animation)   AWIPS images of 1-km resolution GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel images with automated...

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GOES-14 SRSOR: from morning fog/stratus to afternoon convection

Suomi NPP VIIRS and POES AVHRR IR brightness temperature difference “fog/stratus product” images An AWIPS comparison of nighttime Suomi NPP VIIRS and POES AVHRR IR brightness temperature difference...

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GOES-14 SRSOR: Storm-centered Loop of Supercell over the High Plains of Colorado

GOES-14 0.62 µm visible channel images (click to play animation) An isolated Supercell Thunderstorm developed near Denver on 20 May and then moved eastward over the High Plains. The storm produced...

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GOES-14 SRSOR: Thunderstorm development over Kentucky

GOES-13 DPI Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) on May 22, times as indicated (click to play animation) GOES-14 operations in SRSOR mode deliver the ability to monitor convective development...

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Severe thunderstorm over the Black Hills of South Dakota

GOES-13 10.7 µm IR channel images (click to play animation) An isolated severe thunderstorm developed over the northern portion of the Black Hills of South Dakota around 18 UTC (Noon local time) on 27...

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Severe Mesoscale Convective System over the central US

GOES-13 10.7 µm IR channel images (click to play animation) AWIPS images of 4-km resolution GOES-13 10.7 µm IR channel data with overlays of SPC storm reports (above; click image to play animation;...

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Thunderstorms producing very large hail near Paris, France

Meteosat-10 0.7 µm visible channel images (click to play animation) Severe thunderstorms developed over parts of France on 09 June 2014, some of which produced very large hail (photos). EUMETSAT...

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