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Category Archives: Destructive Winds
Microburst Risk Algorithm observes Favorable Conditions for Strong Convective Winds over the Chesapeake Bay
Ken Pryor (NESDIS / STAR) A GOES sounder-derived Microburst Windspeed Potential (MWP) algorithm, based on convective available potential energy (CAPE), and vertical temperature and humidity lapse rates, and based on the vertical difference in equivalent potential temperature (theta-e difference, TED) … Continue reading
Synthetic IR imagery for 19 April 2011
This blog entry will consider the synthetic IR imagery from the NSSL 4-km WRF-ARW model for 19 April 2011. There were many severe weather reports on this day: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/110419_rpts.html The synthetic IR imagery from the WRF-ARW model from 1200 to … Continue reading
United Airlines Flight 967 – Severe Turbulence, July 20, 2010
Jeff Braun and Dan Lindsey NOAA/RAMMB CIRA/CSU ***(Also, please see addendum near the end of this message) The following are a sequence of GOES-13 visible images from 19:45 UTC on 20 July 2010 to 00:45 UTC on 21 July 2010. … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation Weather, Convection, Destructive Winds, GOES, GOES R, GOES-R Proving Ground, Miscellaneous, Problems in Forecasting, Satellites, Severe Weather, Turbulence
Tagged 967, Flight, imagery, July 20, satellite, simulated, Turbulence, United
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Forecasting Convective Downburst Potential: Update
Ken Pryor (NESDIS) The VISIT lesson “Forecasting Convective Downburst Potential Using GOES Sounder Derived Products” presents current applications of a suite of GOES sounder-derived products. The lesson has been recently revised to include updated imagery examples, and new case studies … Continue reading
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Tagged Aviation Weather, Downburst, GOES, Severe Weather
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West Texas Windstorm: 8 February 2009
Ken Pryor A convectively active late winter season over the Great Plains has proven fruitful for the assessment of the GOES-11 imager microburst risk product. During the evening of 8 February 2009, a line of convective storms tracked through eastern New Mexico … Continue reading
Posted in Convection, Destructive Winds, Downbursts, GOES, Problems in Forecasting, Satellites, Severe Weather
Tagged Convection, Downbursts, GOES, microbursts, Satellites, thunderstorms, winds
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