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...
View ArticleMesoscale 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...
View ArticleConvective 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...
View ArticleTornado 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...
View ArticleGOES-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...
View ArticleMoore, 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,...
View ArticleSevere 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...
View ArticleGOES-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...
View ArticleGOES-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...
View ArticleTornado 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...
View ArticleMesoscale 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleConvective 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...
View ArticleSevere 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...
View ArticleGOES-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...
View ArticleGOES-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...
View ArticleGOES-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...
View ArticleSevere 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...
View ArticleSevere 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;...
View ArticleThunderstorms 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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