GOES-13 Satellite Eyeing System With High Risk of Severe Weather

GOES-13 Satellite Eyeing System With High Risk of Severe Weather

The GOES-13 Satellite captured a visible image of the system as daytime heating was boiling up strong and severe thunderstorms. Credit: NOAA/NASA/GOES

by Rob Gutro
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 27, 2011
A low pressure area currently over northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin has created conditions that call for a forecast of severe weather in the eastern third of the U.S. and one area is even labeled "high risk." The GOES-13 Satellite captured a visible image of the system as daytime heating was boiling up strong and severe thunderstorms.

What's unusual about the system is that there are a handful of days where a "high risk" for severe weather is noted by NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). April 26, 2011 is one of them.

The high risk area includes southern Arkansas, extreme northwest Louisiana and extreme northeastern Texas. A moderate level of risk surrounds that area and stretches from west Tennessee, including Memphis, all of eastern Arkansas, northwest Louisiana and further into northeastern Texas.

A slight risk for severe thunderstorms stretches from western Massachusetts through New York, the Appalachian Mountains to the Ohio Valley, Tennessee Valley and through the southeast west toward Texas. See risk map

GOES-13 Satellite Eyeing System With High Risk of Severe Weather