1-minute Satellite Wide Angle View

Taking in a wide angle view of the system moving into the Ohio Valley many features can be tracked in the 1-minute imagery. The obvious are the overshooting tops in the LSX area. Putting the image in motion you can also see the linear structure from the IND cwa through the PAH cwa and back up into the LSX cwa. To the northwest you can see developing towers in the EAX cwa. The inflow into the strongest storms over LSX can be seen feeding into the storms from the south. Looking closely at the overshooting tops you can see the anvil being forced out by the storm in all directions but then being caught up in the mean upper level flow and carrying off to the north and northeast. In greater detail you can see what look like orphan overshooting tops blowing directly eastward out of the southern-most storm in LWX in what looks like some kind of microscale wave moving through the convection. The bottom line is that the details that can be obtained from the one minute data are showing us things that we have never seen before with 15 minute data. -Jason Bourne