Month: February 2009

West Texas Windstorm: 8 February 2009

by on February 18th, 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 and western Texas, producing several strong downbursts west of Lubbock. This event served as another Continue Reading

Convection Destructive Winds Downbursts GOES Problems in Forecasting Satellites Severe Weather