Monitoring lightning in Texas

Our teams in Texas are monitoring for severe storms and lightning at two DSS events: the "Come and Take It!" Celebration, in Gonzales, TX (point A in Figure 1), and the Burton Car and Truck Show, in Burton, TX (point B in Figure 1).

Figure 1: ProbSevere LightningCast probability of lightning contours (blue=10%, cyan=25%, green=50%, magenta=75%), GOES-16 ABI daytime cloud phase distinction RGB (background), GOES-16 GLM flash-extent density (orange foreground).

The LightningCast time series at the "Come and Take It!" Celebration is showing an upward trend in lightning potential (Figure 2, top panel). There have been a few anvil flashes within 10 miles already, as observed by ENI (bottom panel).

Figure 2: Meteograms of LightningCast probabilities (top panel) and observed lightning (bottom panel) for a DSS event in Gonzales, TX.