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Tornado outbreak in Oklahoma and Kansas
GOES-13 0.63 µm visible images On yet another relatively rare SPC “High Risk” Convective Outlook day, a major outbreak of damaging tornadoes occurred across parts of Oklahoma and Kansas on 10 May 2010...
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Long-lived MCV Over Texas
A convective system over Texas spawned a Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV) during the day on 2 June, as shown in the 1.5-day loop above (color-enhanced GOES-13 11-micron imagery shown every 12 hours)....
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Very large hail in the Texas Panhandle region
POES AVHRR Cloud Top Temperature product Severe thunderstorms that developed in the vicinity of a stationary frontal boundary over the northern Texas Panhandle region on 12 June 2010 produced unusually...
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Isolated Convection over Nebraska
The loop above shows the window channel (11 micron) imagery from the night of 15 July over Nebraska. (Also plotted: METARS, lightning, and the UWCI product) An isolated convective storm — identified...
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Forecasting Isolated Convection
How can satellite data be used to focus one’s attention to the relevant portion of an airmass when isolated convection is developing? That was a salient question late in the day on 16 July when a few...
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Convective initiation along a pre-existing convective outflow boundary
GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel images McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel data on 16 September 2010 (above) showed a nice example of the role that a pre-existing convective outflow...
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Strong convection in the Gulf of Mexico
GOES-13 10.7 µm IR images (click image to play animation) AWIPS images of GOES-13 10.7 µm IR data (above; click image to play animation) showed the development of two strong Mesoscale Convective...
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Southeast US tornado outbreak of 27 April 2011
GOES-13 0.63 µm visible images (click image to play animation) The tornado outbreak that affected much of the Southeast US on 27 April 2011 was one of historic proportions, in terms of the number of...
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Aircraft turbulence east of Florida on August 9 2011
GOES-13 Visible with Airplane Positions Turbulence associated with a developing line of convection over the Atlantic Ocean east of Florida was severe enough on August 9th to cause five injuries on a...
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Cloud-Top Cooling Rate
GOES Sounder DPI Lifted Index 1600 UTC on May 30 2012 Satellite descriptors of the atmosphere over the central High Plains on May 30th suggested an atmosphere ripe for convection. For example, the GOES...
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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 GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel images (above; click image to play animation) showed an undular bore marking a...
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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: 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 Weather over the Southern Plains
The Storm Prediction Center in Norman issued a Moderate Risk of severe weather over the Southern Plains on March 25, 2015. Convective products were available in AWIPS to help monitor the evolution of...
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Convective Development over the Upper Midwest
GOES-16 Derived Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE), 1702-2137 UTC on 20 September 2017 (Click to enlarge) GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are...
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Strong convection in the Gulf of Mexico
GOES-13 10.7 µm IR images (click image to play animation) AWIPS images of GOES-13 10.7 µm IR data (above; click image to play animation) showed the development of two strong Mesoscale Convective...
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Southeast US tornado outbreak of 27 April 2011
GOES-13 0.63 µm visible images (click image to play animation) The tornado outbreak that affected much of the Southeast US on 27 April 2011 was one of historic proportions, in terms of the number of...
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Aircraft turbulence east of Florida on August 9 2011
GOES-13 Visible with Airplane Positions Turbulence associated with a developing line of convection over the Atlantic Ocean east of Florida was severe enough on August 9th to cause five injuries on a...
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Cloud-Top Cooling Rate
GOES Sounder DPI Lifted Index 1600 UTC on May 30 2012 Satellite descriptors of the atmosphere over the central High Plains on May 30th suggested an atmosphere ripe for convection. For example, the GOES...
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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...
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