1-Minute SRSOR Imagery Features Compared to Radar Imagery - Cool Stuff!

Below is the 1-minute SRSOR visibile imagery over the far eastern part of Memphis' CWA at 1834 UTC. The cursor readout is highlighting one of several areas of brighter white cloud tops being detected, mainly in southern Gibson, Carroll and Benton Counties. These features suggest these cells have the highest cloud tops, compared to the others in the area.

The corresponding radar imagery from KNQA at 1834 UTC shows where the showers and isolated thunderstorms have developed. The higher radar echoes below correspond very well to the brighter clouds being detected in the 1-minute imagery above. This is a very cool way to track these cells! These features on the 1-minute imagery, such as the brighter clouds shown above, would tell us as forecasters that these cells should continue to maintain themselves (at least) for the next several radar volume scans. Very cool! JJW