Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch

VISIT Blog Posts by jrtorr87:

• ALPW analysis for the 21 August 2021 Flood Event in central Tennessee

• 30 November 2020 Severe Weather Event in the Mid-Atlantic

• ALPW depiction of many tropical cyclones & disturbances – September 14, 2020

• ALPW depiction of mid-level dry air associated with Tropical Storm Isaias

• Impacts of Water Vapor on Satellite Dust Detection of the 16-17 February 2020 Saharan Air Layer Dust Event over the Eastern Atlantic

• Moisture products for the tornadic storm of 4 July 2020 in Saskatchewan

• Analysis of June 17, 2020 Wyoming Snow event with JPSS products

• May 2020 flooding in central Michigan

• Heavy rain event around 18 May 2020 that contributed to dam failures in Michigan

• GOES/JPSS Observations of Oklahoma Severe Storms and Elevated Mixed Layer

• Advected Layer Precipitable Water (ALPW) analysis for 30 April 2020 event

• Nighttime view of inflow feeder clouds from GOES Nighttime Microphysics RGB

• Fall 2019 through Winter 2020 Heavy Precipitation Events

• CIRA Snow/Cloud Layer Product & VIIRS observations of the 12 Feb 2020 Blowing Snow Event

• Advected Layer Precipitable Water (ALPW) product for 5 February 2020 Severe and Flood event

• Thin fog over snow in southwest Kansas – 29 January 2020

• Thin fog over snow in southwest Kansas – 29 January 2020

• 10 January 2020 – Southern Plains Severe Weather event with Elevated Mixed Layer (EML)

• Snow Squalls in Pennsylvania on 8 January 2020

• Elevated Mixed Layer event on 16 December 2019

• Australian Wildfires

• Australian Wildfires

• Lake-effect snow from 7 November 2019

• Lake-effect snow from 7 November 2019

• Water vapor imagery in an extremely dry airmass – 31 October 2019

• 21 October 2019 – nighttime detection of fog and outflow boundaries

• CIRA ALPW Comparison for Two Northeast US Heavy Precipitation Events

• Subtropical storm Melissa

• JPSS/GOES Fire Detection Capabilities – Swan Lake Fire, AK

• VIIRS flood observations along the Arkansas River

• VIIRS observations of Katabatic Winds from the Transcontinental Mountain Range Adjacent to the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica

• Dryline Bulges Identified in GOES-16 Split Window Difference on 30 April 2019

• 17 April 2019 thunderstorm event over northern Mexico as observed by GOES-16

• ALPW product for 26 April 2019 heavy rain / severe thunderstorm event

• Nighttime Fog Monitoring

• NCC monitoring severe weather during the nighttime

• High Plains Snowstorm

• 2-3 April 2019 East Coast Low – ALPW analysis

• Nebraska flooding

• Polar orbiting and geostationary lake ice monitoring

• 3 March 2019 – Severe thunderstorm and heavy rainfall event

• Radar and satellite ‘snowfall rate’ observations

• Low cloud / fog over snow covered ground on 25 February 2019

• Popocatépetl Volcanic Eruption

• 14 February 2019 California Atmospheric River event

• VIIRS Captures Ice/Ocean Movements

• 4 February 2019 significant ice storm in the Upper Great Lakes

• Observing sea surface temperatures from GOES and JPSS

• Arctic Blast in the Upper Midwest

• WS Harper Impacts on Northeast US

• Winter Storm Harper

• Fog and Low Clouds over Snow Cover in the Midwest: A case from 10 December 2018

• Advected Layer Precipitable Water (ALPW) comparison for events in December 2018 – January 2019

• New Mexico Snowstorm

• 20 December 2018 Heavy Rain event in the Mid-Atlantic area

• Advected Layer Precipitable Water (ALPW) for 14 December 2018 event

• DNB and satellite identification

• 21 November 2018 Snow Squall event in upstate New York

• Sea Ice Motion and VIIRS Spatial Resolutions

• Alaskan Aurora

• DNB: Ship Light Monitoring and Sea Ice Motion

• Hurricane Willa

• Santa Ana Winds and Dust Identification

• Hurricane Michael

• The Arizona Hurricane Rosa Heavy Rainfall Event for Late September to Early October 2018

• Hail damage swaths from severe storms over the High Plains as viewed from satellites during July 2018

• Some Advected Layered Precipitable Water (ALPW) Comparisons Between Florence, Harvey (2017), Maria (2017) and Matthew (2016) with Respect to Rainfall and Severe Weather

• Hurricane Florence

• Hurricane Lane

• Hurricane Hector

• Dust off the coast of Africa!

• Carr Fire

• Typhoon Jongdari

• Ferguson Fire, CA

• Pawnee Fire, CA

• GOES-16 Split Window Difference Precursor to Convective Initiation

• Hurricane Aletta

• Storm-relative animations for right-moving and left-moving storms

• Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala erupts again!

• Ute Park Fire, New Mexico

• Alberto

• Buzzard Fire, New Mexico

• Fog event of 22 May 2018 in the midwest – focus on nighttime microphysics RGB

• Hail swath observed by GOES-16

• Colorado Dust Storm

• Oklahoma Wildfires

• Atmospheric River: Northern and Central California

• Colorado Fog

• Faka-Union Fire (Southwest Florida)

• Synthetic imagery from the NSSL WRF-ARW for 7 March 2018 event

• Tropical Cyclone Dumazile

• East Coast Weather….

• Mississippi and Ohio River Flooding

• Flooding across the CONUS

• Vortices off the California coast on 5 February 2018

• Fuego de Volcan, Guatemala

• Mayon Volcano Eruption

• 2018 Nor’Easter and NCC!

• 4 January 2018 explosive cyclogenesis event

• High cloud obscuration during a lake-effect snow event

• Snow in the southeastern US!

• Thomas Fire

• December Wildfires in California

• Orographic cirrus / lee wave clouds as observed from GOES-16

• Tropical Storm Rina

• Early Morning Fog in Colorado

• GOES-16 perspective of Leeside cold front and associated gravity waves – 30 October 2017

• Early season lake-effect showers on 25 October 2017

• Hurricane Ophelia and Wildfires in Spain and Portugal

• California Wildfires

• Advected Layer Precipitable Water product for Hurricane Harvey

• Hurricane Harvey

• Interesting features along the west coast on 15 August 2017

• Fires in Pacific Northwest

• Quasi-Null case for lots of TPW over eastern Colorado on 29 July 2017

• Layer PW product for flooding on 27 July 2017

• Gap flow in the Strait of Juan de Fuca

• Tropical Activity in the East Pacific

• California (Alamo Fire)

• Onset of southwest monsoon as depicted by the CIRA advected LPW product

• Advantage of 1-minute imagery for the evolution of rapidly evolving low clouds

• Undular bore in the Split Window Difference Product

• Island / coastal effects in the northeast on 19 June 2017

• Colorado: Dead Dog Wildfire

• Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV) over Texas on 9 June 2017

• Tropical Storm Beatriz

• 1-minute GOES-16 applications for the 8 May 2017 Colorado hail event

• Southern Georgia: West Mims Fire

• Tropical Cyclone Donna

• 16 April 2017: 1.37 micron band (“Cirrus band”) features other than cirrus clouds

• 1-minute applications for severe thunderstorms from 15-16 April 2017

• Snow on the ground as depicted in the GOES-16 1.6 micron band

• Low-level moisture as observed from the GOES-16 split window difference product

• NCC, GOES-16 and the Pacific Northwest

• Lake-effect showers off Salt Lake and Seasonal Lakes

• 23 March 2017 Convection and Dust in Texas / New Mexico

• 24 March 2017 fog / low stratus in the West

• 22 March 2017 undular bore

• 14 March 2017 Blizzard

• GOES-16 7.34 micron band applications for the 6 March 2017 event

• Madagascar: Tropical Cyclone Enawo

• Comparison of GOES-16 with GOES-13

• GOES-16 Mountain Wave clouds on 3 March 2017

• Advected LPW product in identifying circulations in the vertical

• 7-8 February 2017, New Orleans Power Outage

• More Precipitation for the West Coast, 3 February 2017

• 17-22 January Significant Precipitation for the West Coast

• Post Atmospheric River Events in California, 011317

• Atmospheric River event of 7-9 January 2017

• Lake Effect Snow: Buffalo and Rochester, NY, 121416-121516

• Nantahala National Forest Wildfires 11-11-16

• 11 November 2016 Himawari imagery around Japan

• South-Central Colorado: Junkins Fire

• Hurricane Matthew 100616

• Puerto Rico Power Outage 092116

• Hurricane Season in the Atlantic: Invest Area 99L and TS Gaston

• VIIRS Flood Detection Product: Gulf Coast Flooding, August 2016

• 1-minute GOES-14 SRSO for 9 August 2016 Montana storm

• NCC Imagery, Colorado Fires In July

• 19 June 2016-Present: Beaver Creek Fire, Jackson County, Colorado

• NUCAPS, Part Two: Field Campaign and Observations

• Fort McMurray Wildfires and Near-Constant Contrast (NCC) Imagery

• NUCAPS, Part One: Introduction

• Synthetic Imagery from the NAM Alaska Nest 4 km

• Suomi-NPP, VIIRS, Day-Night Band (DNB): Moon Phases

• Cold Air Aloft Product: Arctic

• DNB Percent Solar Reflectance – Colorado

• CIRA Layer Precipitable Water product – snow cover issue

• 4 June 2015 GOES 1-minute visible imagery and time lapse video

• GOES 1-minute imagery on 2 June 2015 over North Dakota

• GOES visible imagery analysis for 26 April 2015 tornadic storm in Texas

• 2 April 2015 severe thunderstorm event

• Typhoon Hagupit

• GOES-14 SRSOR for May 20, 2014

• SRSOR on 21 May 2014

• May 8 2014 GOES SRSO for Severe Weather

• Mesovortex over Lake Ontario from 12 December 2013

• 10 June 2013 Colorado Dry Microburst

• Synthetic imagery comparison from 2 different models

• Synthetic imagery application of a snow event on March 5-6, 2013

• Transverse bands on February 8, 2013

• Mesoscale vortex development over Lake Ontario on January 23, 2013

• December 3, 2012 Fog event in South Carolina

• Synthetic Low Cloud / Fog Product for October 10, 2012

• Super Typhoon Jelawat

• Microburst Risk Algorithm observes Favorable Conditions for Strong Convective Winds over the Chesapeake Bay

• New Mexico’s Whitewater-Baldy and Colorado’s High Park Fires: Case(s) of the “Disappearing Smoke” – Differences in Visible Smoke Detection – GOES 15 vs GOES 13

• 1-Minute GOES Imagery over Colorado Severe Storms

• March 2, 2012 Severe Weather Outbreak

• Puget Sound Convergence Zone in Action

• Snow and Cloud discrimination with GOES-R Proving Ground Product

• The pre-storm environment for the 27 April 2011 tornado outbreak

• Synthetic IR imagery for 19 April 2011

• Synthetic Imagery for Severe Weather Forecasting

• Synthetic Cloud Top Heights

• United Airlines Flight 967 – Severe Turbulence, July 20, 2010

• Oil and Water Really Don’t Mix

• Is it Real, or is it…Synthetic GOES-R Imagery?

• MODIS Longwave channel difference of Gulf Stream and Labrador currents

• Severe thunderstorms over southwest Arkansas on 10 March 2010

• MODIS Images: Lake Erie Ice Break-up and Ice Floe

• GOES-11/MODIS channel differencing for icing hazard

• GOES-R ABI smoke imagery for the Proving Ground

• Proving Ground: GOES-R ABI color imagery

• GOES-11 Longwave channel difference for liquid water

• Thunderstorm features through channel differencing in the GOES-R Proving Ground

• GOES-R Proving Ground At the Great Lakes

• Synthetic imagery for model evaluation in the Proving Ground

• Proving Ground: Future GOES-R – Convective Initiation

• SHyMet for Forecasters Development Plan

• Toward an Advanced Sounder on GOES?

• Forecasting Convective Downburst Potential: Update

• Texas Severe Storm during GOES-11 SRSO: 5 May 2009

• West Texas Windstorm: 8 February 2009

• Forecasting Convective Downburst Potential – by Ken Pryor (NESDIS)

• The Summer Edition of ‘The Front’ – What’s New?

• “California Burnin’ on Such a Summers Day”

• Flash Flood Season in the Rocky Mountain West – Just a Reminder

• Hello Dolly! Tropical Cyclone Season has “un”officially arrived!

• The North American Monsoon Season Has Begun

• Volcano Season is Year ‘Round

• (Experimental) Tropical Cyclone Formation Probability Product (TCFP)

• Our Thoughts and Hearts Go Out to the Boy Scouts of Nebraska and Iowa

• The Weld County, Colorado Tornadoes of May 22, 2008 (Updated June 11, 2008)

• Lightning as Proxy for VIL and/or Echo Tops (ET)

• Some Great Knowledge, Papers, and Training Materials That You May Have Missed

• Experimental Warning Program 2008 at NSSL starts April 28, 2008

• Fires in Russia = Smoke in Minnesota

• Market Yourselves – (and in the process) Inform and Educate Your Readers!

• QPF Bombs and Getting the Most Out of Your Model

• Hawaii, Up Close and Personal

• Central CONUS River Flooding – from CIMSS

• Highlights from the Dec. 11-12, 2007 “Review of the NCEP Production Suite” Conference

• What Is Going On Here?

• The Front: The Importance of Climatology in Aviation

• Use of Satellite Data at National Weather Service Forecast Offices

• AMS-FYI: GOES Imagery Applications at the Aviation Weather Center

• AMS-FYI: United Airlines Polar Operations (5th GOES Users Conference)

• What Could Have Been…

• Phenomena along the California coast

• Tropical Cyclones and Dvorak

• Great Lakes Phenomenon

• Hot, Cold, Moist, Dry…