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Floods in the Southern and M …
Title Floods in the Southern and Midwestern United States
Description River systems throughout northern Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana were swollen with winter rain when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured the top image on January 21, 2007. The National Weather Service had issued warnings of mild flooding on many of the rivers shown in this image, but by January 22, the high water had begun to subside. The floods followed a powerful winter storm [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17530 ] that dumped heavy rain on the South, and ice and snow on the Midwest. The lower image shows Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana on January 10, before the storm struck. Like the top image, the lower image was made with both infrared and visible light to increase the contrast between water and land. In this type of image, water is black or dark blue, while plant-covered land is bright green and bare or lightly vegetated ground is tan. The city of Shreveport, Louisiana, is the grey area on the banks of the Red River. Clouds are pale blue and white. True-color, photo-like images are also available from the MODIS Rapid Response Team. [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?USA7 ] NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC.
Floods in the Southern and M …
Title Floods in the Southern and Midwestern United States
Description River systems throughout northern Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana were swollen with winter rain when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured the top image on January 21, 2007. The National Weather Service had issued warnings of mild flooding on many of the rivers shown in this image, but by January 22, the high water had begun to subside. The floods followed a powerful winter storm [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17530 ] that dumped heavy rain on the South, and ice and snow on the Midwest. The lower image shows Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana on January 10, before the storm struck. Like the top image, the lower image was made with both infrared and visible light to increase the contrast between water and land. In this type of image, water is black or dark blue, while plant-covered land is bright green and bare or lightly vegetated ground is tan. The city of Shreveport, Louisiana, is the grey area on the banks of the Red River. Clouds are pale blue and white. True-color, photo-like images are also available from the MODIS Rapid Response Team. [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?USA7 ] NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC.
Growing-Season Fires in Cent …
Title Growing-Season Fires in Central United States
Description Agricultural burning in preparation for the growing season was underway in the central United States at the time of this image, captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite on March 31, 2004. Across the dun-colored witner landscape, spring green is beginning to spread across the south-central parts of the country, including (top left to bottom) Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, and (top right to bottom) Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Fires have been marked with red dots in the image. The smokier fires in Arkansas may be prescribed burns on state or federal lands that are set in the spring to decrease built-up underbrush and other vegetation that could contribute to more severe wildfires later in the season. Though not necessarily hazardous, large-scale burning can have an impact on weather, climate, human health, and natural resources. The high-resolution image provided above is 500 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at additional resolutions. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
Heavy Rain in the US Midwest
Title Heavy Rain in the US Midwest
Description The powerful storms that moved across the U.S. Midwest during the first week of May 2007 brought wind, hail, tornadoes, and drenching rain. This image shows rainfall totals over parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska between May 1 and May 8, based in part on measurements made by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM [ http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ]) satellite. More than 400 millimeters (15.7 inches) of rain fell over some regions, corresponding with locations where the National Weather Service reported severe weather. [ http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/070506_rpts.html ] A wide swath of red and orange (between 240 and 400 millimeters of rain) arcs in a clockwise direction from western Oklahoma, through central Kansas, and into southeastern Nebraska. The reddish-orange bull's-eye over southeastern Louisiana is evidence of the torrential rains that pounded visitors to the annual New Orleans Jazz Festival. South-central Texas' Edward Plateau was soaked with more than 240 millimeters of rain during the period, as well. From May 4 to May 8, the National Weather Service [ http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ ] received approximately 683 reports of severe weather, 140 of which were reports of tornadoes, including the massive F5 [ http://www.crh.noaa.gov/crnews/display_story.php?wfo=ddc&storyid=7828&source=0 ] tornado that devastated the city of Greensburg, Kansas. Beyond the damaging winds and tornadoes, the torrential rain triggered extensive flooding throughout the Central Plains. On the evening of May 7, flood warnings [ http://www.crh.noaa.gov/crnews/display_story.php?wfo=crh&storyid=7865&source=0 ] were in effect from South Dakota to southern Texas, and by May 8, the Hydrologic Information Center [ http://www.weather.gov/ahps/ ] reported moderate to major flooding at 53 stream gauge sites in South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and Arkansas. The floods could be as severe as the 1993 flood, [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16881 ] one of the costliest floods in U.S. history, reported the Associated Press. [ http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.national/203d853a-www.wlos.com.shtml ] NASA image by Hal Pierce
Dust Storm in Texas
Title Dust Storm in Texas
Description The same hot, dry, windy conditions that allowed grassfires [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=13301 ] to rage throughout parts of Oklahoma and Texas at the end of 2005 kicked up dust at the beginning of the new year. On January 1, 2006, a dust storm approximately 500 kilometers (300 miles) across swept through northern Texas and into Oklahoma. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] flying onboard the Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured this image on January 1, 2006. Swirling in a counter-clockwise direction toward the northeast, the dust storm appears in a light shade of tan, partially obscuring the view of the darker ground surface. The storm appears to start near the Texas-New Mexico border. Smoke from wildfires mixes with the dust in places. The "hot spots" where these fires rage on the ground appear in red, and some of the fires emit substantial plumes of smoke, especially two fires immediately south of the dust storm. Another fire, almost hidden by clouds, burns north of the dust storm. The hot, dry, windy conditions that prevailed in this part of North America in late 2005 set the stage for a dust storm in a couple different ways. Winds stir up particles on the ground and eventually suspend them in the air. Once aloft, dust particles can remain airborne even after wind speeds drop. Meanwhile, a dearth of rain can decrease vegetation cover, leading to extreme daytime heating of the ground. This heat causes an unstable boundary layer, the lowest 1 to 2 kilometers (0.6 to 1.2 miles) of atmosphere. An unstable boundary layer often encourages air to rise, carrying dust even higher into the air. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, significant portions of Texas faced drought conditions in late December 2005, including areas of extreme drought along the border with Mexico, and exceptional drought along the border with Oklahoma and Arkansas. Under these conditions, fires and dust storms could continue to threaten the region. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response team.
Hurricane Rita
Title Hurricane Rita
Description After forming east of the Turks and Caicos, Rita moved west and sideswiped the Florida Keys before entering the Gulf of Mexico where it strengthend into the 3rd most powerful hurricane on record (in terms of central air pressure). Rita eventually made landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border as a Category 3 storm. After making landfall, Rita weakened into a tropical depression and moved northeastward through central Arkansas and into southeast Missouri. The image about shows the Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) rainfall totals due solely to Rita for the period September 18-26, 2005, with storm symbols marking the storm track. The highest rainfall totals are over coastal Louisiana where a swath of 8- to 10-inch amounts (yellow and orange areas) extends eastward from the Texas border to near Morgan City. Parts of the Keys and far southwestern peninsular Florida received up to 5 inches from Rita (green areas). Overall, the inland rainfall totals across the central Mississippi valley were not very high, generally less than 4 inches (light green to blue), as Rita rather quickly moved off to the northeast. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite has been measuring rainfall over the tropics since its launch in 1997. The TRMM-based, near-real time MPA at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center provides estimates of rainfall over the global tropics. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Image produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and captioned by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC).
Hurricane Rita
Title Hurricane Rita
Description Hurricane Rita was slowly winding down as it approached the Louisiana and Texas shoreline on September 23, 2005. At 2:05 p.m. U.S. Central time, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured this image, Rita was a dangerous Category 3 storm, down from the near-record-breaking Category 5 hurricane it was on September 21. At its core, Rita had sustained winds of 205 kilometers per hour (125 miles per hour) and stronger gusts. A mere two days earlier, the storm packed wind speeds of 275 kilometers per hour (170 miles per hour), making it the fourth most powerful storm ever measured. In this image, the outer bands of the storm already extend well over Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas, affecting many regions devastated by Hurricane Katrina on August 29. Over the Gulf of Mexico, Rita's well-defined eye has clouded over. This closed or "dirty" eye shape is typical of a storm that has reached its peak strength and is slackening. Though the center of the storm is forecast to come ashore in Texas near the Louisiana border, Rita will likely have a far-reaching effect. The massive storm has hurricane-strength winds that reach 140 kilometers (85 miles) from the eye, with weaker tropical-storm-strength winds that extend as far as 335 kilometers (205 miles) from the storm's center. Rita will also bring heavy rain—up to 20 inches in some locations, the National Hurricane Center [ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ ] warns—high tides, and battering waves. For more images of Hurricane Rita, please visit the Natural Hazards [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=13158 ] section of the Earth Observatory. For more information about Rita, see the National Hurricane Center [ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ ]. The large image provided above has a resolution of 500 meters per pixel. The image is available in additional resolutions [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2005266-0923/Rita.A2005266.1910 ], including MODIS' maximum resolution of 250 meters per pixel, from the MODIS Rapid Response Team. NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC
Fires Across Southern United …
Title Fires Across Southern United States
Description This image of fires in the southern United States was captured on March 10, 2004, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite. Actively burning fires have been marked with red dots in Oklahoma (top left), Texas (bottom left), Arkansas (top center), Louisiana (bottom center), and (left to right across the rest of the image) Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. Most of us don?t think of late winter as fire season in the United States, but according to the Southern Coordination Center for the National Interagency Fire Center, just over 993,000 acres had been affected by fire in the Southern region as of March 23, 2004: 11,936 human-caused fires affected 130,385 acres, 18 lightning-caused fire affected 225 acres, and 1,084 prescribed fires (those set by land management agencies for natural resource management purposes) affected 862,772 acres. The high-resolution image provided above is 500 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at additional resolutions. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA-GSFC
Rain in the U.S. Midwest
Title Rain in the U.S. Midwest
Description The powerful storms that moved across the U.S. Midwest during the first week of May 2007 brought wind, hail, tornadoes, and drenching rain. This image shows rainfall totals over parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska between May 1 and May 8, based in part on measurements made by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM [ http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ]) satellite. More than 400 millimeters (15.7 inches) of rain fell over some regions, corresponding with locations where the National Weather Service reported severe weather. [ http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/070506_rpts.html ] A wide swath of red and orange (between 240 and 400 millimeters of rain) arcs in a clockwise direction from western Oklahoma, through central Kansas, and into southeastern Nebraska. The reddish-orange bull's-eye over southeastern Louisiana is evidence of the torrential rains that pounded visitors to the annual New Orleans Jazz Festival. South-central Texas' Edward Plateau was soaked with more than 240 millimeters of rain during the period, as well. From May 4 to May 8, the National Weather Service [ http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ ] received approximately 683 reports of severe weather, 140 of which were reports of tornadoes, including the massive F5 [ http://www.crh.noaa.gov/crnews/display_story.php?wfo=ddc&storyid=7828&source=0 ] tornado that devastated the city of Greensburg, Kansas. Beyond the damaging winds and tornadoes, the torrential rain triggered extensive flooding throughout the Central Plains. On the evening of May 7, flood warnings [ http://www.crh.noaa.gov/crnews/display_story.php?wfo=crh&storyid=7865&source=0 ] were in effect from South Dakota to southern Texas, and by May 8, the Hydrologic Information Center [ http://www.weather.gov/ahps/ ] reported moderate to major flooding at 53 stream gauge sites in South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and Arkansas. The floods could be as severe as the 1993 flood, [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16881 ] one of the costliest floods in U.S. history, reported the Associated Press. [ http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.national/203d853a-www.wlos.com.shtml ] NASA image by Hal Pierce.
Fires in Mississippi Valley
Title Fires in Mississippi Valley
Description What they lack in drama, the fires in the Southeast U.S. make up for in numbers each year. There are more fires in the Mississippi Valley, the Plains and the Southeast every year than there are out West, but they are generally much smaller and do not gain the attention of the national news media. This image captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite on September 16, 2003, shows dozens of actively burning fires (red dots) in the states east and west of the Mississippi River Plain, which cuts vertically through the image. States shown include (bottom row, left to right) Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. North of Louisiana, numerous fires are burning in Arkansas. Left and right of Arkansas are Oklahoma and Tennessee, respectively. Across the top (left to right) are Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, and Kentucky. The vegetation that is spread over the region is showing little sign of the approaching autumn equinox. The high-resolution image provided above is 500 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at MODIS' maximum spatial resolution of 250 meters. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
Smoke from Alaskan Fires ove …
Title Smoke from Alaskan Fires over Louisiana
Description This image of the southern United States from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite is a picture-perfect example of what meteorologists mean when they describe the atmosphere as a fluid. In the center of the image, an airborne river of smoke from fires raging across Alaska is flowing down the Mississippi River corridor and spreading out across the shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico, at the bottom of the scene. Thick smoke hangs over Louisiana (bottom center) as well as Texas, to the west, and Arkansas to the north. MODIS captured the image on July 19, 2004. NASA image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at GSFC
Snowstorm Rolls Across the U …
Title Snowstorm Rolls Across the U.S.
Description A severe winter storm rolled eastward across the central United States between December 23 and 25, 2002, bringing a white Christmas to millions of people in a wide swath stretching from the southern Great Plains region all the way to New England. Many areas in the northeast reported blizzard conditions during the storm, in which snow accumulated on the ground at a rate of up to 5 inches (12 cm) per hour. As much as 3 feet (1 meter) of snow fell in some places over the 48-hour span. Unfortunately, the storm resulted in at least 19 deaths. There have been a number of car accidents reported in many states and tens of thousands of people living in the northeast were left without power. This true-color image was acquired on Dec. 25, 2002, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) flying aboard NASA?s Aqua satellite. The wide white swath running from west to east through the scene shows the southern Great Plains region blanketed by snow ? from the Texas panhandle across northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas into Missouri and northwestern Arkansas. Brownish-green areas are bare land surface. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] at NASA GSFC
Fires in Southern United Sta …
Title Fires in Southern United States
Description The combination of parched vegetation and gusty winds that caused dozens of devastating fires in New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma in the first week of 2006 has brought a similar fate to a wider area of the southern United States in the second week of January. Among the newly affected states is Arkansas. This image shows the southeast corner of the state, near the border with Louisiana. Two large fires were detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite when it collected this image on January 8, 2006. The image has been enhanced by the inclusion of shortwave and near-infrared energy that MODIS detected. Vegetation appears bright green, bare or thinly vegetated ground is tan, water is dark blue, and the actively burning areas of the fire appear bright pink (outlined in red). The image is shown at MODIS' maximum spatial resolution of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?USA7 ] of the area in a variety of formats. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center
Fires in Southern United Sta …
Title Fires in Southern United States
Description Drought, high temperatures, and strong winds combined with holiday fireworks, trash fires, and careless cigarettes to create a disaster in parts of Texas and Oklahoma in late December 2005. According to the Associated Press, more than 70 fires blazed throughout north and central Texas and Oklahoma, many of them set by people ignoring local fire bans. By December 29, nearly 20,000 acres had burned in the region, more than 100 homes had been lost, and several people had died from fire-related injuries. This image shows parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana, as imaged by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] flying onboard the Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite. The sensor took this image on December 28, 2005, the same day that the fires caused the most damage. Cloud cover obscures part of the region, but hot spots, indicated in red, appear throughout the area, many of them sending up their own plumes of smoke. North and central Texas, where most of the fires occurred, saw its fifth driest year on record in 2005. In the Dallas-Forth Worth area, annual rainfall was about 41 centimeters (16 inches) below normal. In Oklahoma, the annual rainfall was about 30 centimeters (12 inches) below normal. Shortly before the grass fires spread throughout the region, local temperatures topped 27 degrees Celsius (80 degrees Fahrenheit) and worsened the already-dry conditions. The wind and heat abated somewhat after the fires started, but the National Weather Service predicted a return of heat and wind right before New Year's Day of 2006. Authorities expressed concern that a fresh round of holiday fireworks could touch off a fresh round of fires. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response team.
Fires in Southern United Sta …
Title Fires in Southern United States
Description On January 2, 2006, winds whipped a fast-moving fire across the grasslands just south of the Red River, which marks the border between Oklahoma and Texas. According to reports from the Associated Press, the fire nearly razed the small ranch town of Ringgold, Texas, destroying as many as 50 homes and most of the buildings along the small town's Main Street. The fire scorched tens of thousands of acres between Ringgold and the town of Nocona, to the southeast. The charcoal-colored burn scar slices through the center of this image, captured on January 8, 2006, by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov ] satellite. To make the burn scar stand out more prominently, the image was enhanced with the sensor's observations of near- and shortwave-infrared energy as well as visible light. Winter-bare ground is tan and brown, while patches of red indicate growing vegetation, probably irrigated crops. The small town of Nocona appears as a cement-gray splash at lower right of the scene, while the location of Ringgold is obscured by a cloud at image left. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor [ http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/archive/2006/drmon0103.htm ] map for January 3, drought stretched across the south-central United States in the first of January, affecting Arizona, southern Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and western Arkansas. A pocket of Exceptional Drought—the highest drought category on the scale—spanned northeastern Texas, southeastern Oklahoma, and intruded a short distance into western Arkansas. The lack of rain, high temperatures, and strong winds were a menace for firefighters across the region, who continued to battle grassland and other wildfires through the first part of the month. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data provided courtesy of the NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team
Thunderstorms Bring Floods t …
Title Thunderstorms Bring Floods to Texas
Description Thunderstorms over the weekend dumped heavy rains over parts of northern Texas. The resulting flash floods were responsible for the deaths of six people in Fort Worth and Corsicana, all of whom perished when their vehicles were swept away by flood waters. The storms formed along and ahead of a frontal boundary that pushed eastward from central Texas. Low-level moisture from the Gulf of Mexico provided the fuel for the storms. The first image shows a snapshot of the storms over Texas taken by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite, which uses both passive and active sensors to measure rainfall from space. The image was taken at 11:39 pm, US Central Time, on April 30, 2004, and shows rainfall intensity in the center swath from the TRMM Precipitation Radar (PR), the first and only precipitation radar in space, and in the outer swath from the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI). The rain rates are overlaid on infrared (IR) data from the TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner (VIRS). A scattered but intense line of storms extends from central west Texas through northeast Texas and into Arkansas, seen more clearly in the full view provided above. Most of the storms contain areas of intense rainfall (dark red areas), especially evident over northeast Texas, as a result of strong instability and abundant moisture. The second image taken at the same time shows a vertical perspective of the 30 dBZ isosurface taken by the TRMM PR looking west. It shows rain drops or larger ice particles, which can be measured by radar, that have been carried aloft as a result of the strong updrafts in the storms (blue, green and red correspond to low, moderate and high levels, respectively). The full image is also available. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC).
Thunderstorms Bring Floods t …
Title Thunderstorms Bring Floods to Texas
Description Thunderstorms over the weekend dumped heavy rains over parts of northern Texas. The resulting flash floods were responsible for the deaths of six people in Fort Worth and Corsicana, all of whom perished when their vehicles were swept away by flood waters. The storms formed along and ahead of a frontal boundary that pushed eastward from central Texas. Low-level moisture from the Gulf of Mexico provided the fuel for the storms. The first image shows a snapshot of the storms over Texas taken by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite, which uses both passive and active sensors to measure rainfall from space. The image was taken at 11:39 pm, US Central Time, on April 30, 2004, and shows rainfall intensity in the center swath from the TRMM Precipitation Radar (PR), the first and only precipitation radar in space, and in the outer swath from the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI). The rain rates are overlaid on infrared (IR) data from the TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner (VIRS). A scattered but intense line of storms extends from central west Texas through northeast Texas and into Arkansas, seen more clearly in the full view provided above. Most of the storms contain areas of intense rainfall (dark red areas), especially evident over northeast Texas, as a result of strong instability and abundant moisture. The second image taken at the same time shows a vertical perspective of the 30 dBZ isosurface taken by the TRMM PR looking west. It shows rain drops or larger ice particles, which can be measured by radar, that have been carried aloft as a result of the strong updrafts in the storms (blue, green and red correspond to low, moderate and high levels, respectively). The full image is also available. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC).
Thunderstorms Bring Floods t …
Title Thunderstorms Bring Floods to Texas
Description Thunderstorms over the weekend dumped heavy rains over parts of northern Texas. The resulting flash floods were responsible for the deaths of six people in Fort Worth and Corsicana, all of whom perished when their vehicles were swept away by flood waters. The storms formed along and ahead of a frontal boundary that pushed eastward from central Texas. Low-level moisture from the Gulf of Mexico provided the fuel for the storms. The first image shows a snapshot of the storms over Texas taken by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite, which uses both passive and active sensors to measure rainfall from space. The image was taken at 11:39 pm, US Central Time, on April 30, 2004, and shows rainfall intensity in the center swath from the TRMM Precipitation Radar (PR), the first and only precipitation radar in space, and in the outer swath from the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI). The rain rates are overlaid on infrared (IR) data from the TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner (VIRS). A scattered but intense line of storms extends from central west Texas through northeast Texas and into Arkansas, seen more clearly in the full view provided above. Most of the storms contain areas of intense rainfall (dark red areas), especially evident over northeast Texas, as a result of strong instability and abundant moisture. The second image taken at the same time shows a vertical perspective of the 30 dBZ isosurface taken by the TRMM PR looking west. It shows rain drops or larger ice particles, which can be measured by radar, that have been carried aloft as a result of the strong updrafts in the storms (blue, green and red correspond to low, moderate and high levels, respectively). The full image is also available. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC).
Thunderstorms Bring Floods t …
Title Thunderstorms Bring Floods to Texas
Description Thunderstorms over the weekend dumped heavy rains over parts of northern Texas. The resulting flash floods were responsible for the deaths of six people in Fort Worth and Corsicana, all of whom perished when their vehicles were swept away by flood waters. The storms formed along and ahead of a frontal boundary that pushed eastward from central Texas. Low-level moisture from the Gulf of Mexico provided the fuel for the storms. The first image shows a snapshot of the storms over Texas taken by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite, which uses both passive and active sensors to measure rainfall from space. The image was taken at 11:39 pm, US Central Time, on April 30, 2004, and shows rainfall intensity in the center swath from the TRMM Precipitation Radar (PR), the first and only precipitation radar in space, and in the outer swath from the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI). The rain rates are overlaid on infrared (IR) data from the TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner (VIRS). A scattered but intense line of storms extends from central west Texas through northeast Texas and into Arkansas, seen more clearly in the full view provided above. Most of the storms contain areas of intense rainfall (dark red areas), especially evident over northeast Texas, as a result of strong instability and abundant moisture. The second image taken at the same time shows a vertical perspective of the 30 dBZ isosurface taken by the TRMM PR looking west. It shows rain drops or larger ice particles, which can be measured by radar, that have been carried aloft as a result of the strong updrafts in the storms (blue, green and red correspond to low, moderate and high levels, respectively). The full image is also available. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC).
Thunderstorms in the Central …
Title Thunderstorms in the Central United States
Description It is not uncommon for severe weather to strike the plains of the midwestern United States in the spring. Storm systems organizing east of the Rockies in the springtime are known for delivering severe weather to the central United States. This was the case on May 13 and 14, 2005, when cold air coming down from the Rockies collided with warm, moist air coming up from the Gulf of Mexico. Strong storms with hail and gusty winds pounded the country from the panhandle of Texas into the Ohio valley and Mid-Atlantic. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite captured these images of the storms on May 14. The top image shows an instantaneous snapshot of a storm complex that extended from northern Texas into eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas. The image was taken at 1:29 a.m. U.S. Central Daylight time and shows the horizontal distribution of rain intensity as seen from above. Rain rates in the center swath are from TRMM's precipitation radar—the first and only precipitation radar in space—while rain rates in the outer swath are from the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI). The rain rates are overlaid on infrared (IR) data from the TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner (VIRS). In this image, a wavy squall-line type system stretches across eastern Oklahoma. A squall line is characterized by a linear convective leading edge having strong updrafts and heavy rain (red areas) followed by stratiform rain, a broad area of light rain (green and blue areas). Strong winds can distort the linear features of a squall line into the sort of wavy pattern seen here, and indeed, wind damage was reported in Oklahoma and Arkansas where the squall line passed. More intense convective cells (dark red) sit over north-central Texas, where there were several hail reports associated with the storms. The storm also produced a great deal of lightning, as revealed by the lightning data from the TRMM Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS), which have been overlaid on the rain rates in the top image. The clusters of magenta-colored crosses indicate areas of lightning activity observed near the time of the image and include cloud-to-cloud, cloud-to-ground, and intracloud flashes. The lower image shows a 3-D perspective view of the 30-decibel radar echo, the type of signal received over regions of moderately intense rain, associated with the squall line along the Oklahoma-Arkansas border. The surface is colored according to the height of the surface with red being the highest. The higher the surface, the more intense the convection is. Echoes near this intensity that penetrate above the -10 to -20 degrees Celsius level are also a good indication of the potential for cloud-to-ground lightning. The cluster of magenta crosses along the squall line confirm the intensity of lightning in the region.TRMM [ http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ], is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC).
Thunderstorms in the Central …
Title Thunderstorms in the Central United States
Description It is not uncommon for severe weather to strike the plains of the midwestern United States in the spring. Storm systems organizing east of the Rockies in the springtime are known for delivering severe weather to the central United States. This was the case on May 13 and 14, 2005, when cold air coming down from the Rockies collided with warm, moist air coming up from the Gulf of Mexico. Strong storms with hail and gusty winds pounded the country from the panhandle of Texas into the Ohio valley and Mid-Atlantic. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite captured these images of the storms on May 14. The top image shows an instantaneous snapshot of a storm complex that extended from northern Texas into eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas. The image was taken at 1:29 a.m. U.S. Central Daylight time and shows the horizontal distribution of rain intensity as seen from above. Rain rates in the center swath are from TRMM's precipitation radar—the first and only precipitation radar in space—while rain rates in the outer swath are from the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI). The rain rates are overlaid on infrared (IR) data from the TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner (VIRS). In this image, a wavy squall-line type system stretches across eastern Oklahoma. A squall line is characterized by a linear convective leading edge having strong updrafts and heavy rain (red areas) followed by stratiform rain, a broad area of light rain (green and blue areas). Strong winds can distort the linear features of a squall line into the sort of wavy pattern seen here, and indeed, wind damage was reported in Oklahoma and Arkansas where the squall line passed. More intense convective cells (dark red) sit over north-central Texas, where there were several hail reports associated with the storms. The storm also produced a great deal of lightning, as revealed by the lightning data from the TRMM Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS), which have been overlaid on the rain rates in the top image. The clusters of magenta-colored crosses indicate areas of lightning activity observed near the time of the image and include cloud-to-cloud, cloud-to-ground, and intracloud flashes. The lower image shows a 3-D perspective view of the 30-decibel radar echo, the type of signal received over regions of moderately intense rain, associated with the squall line along the Oklahoma-Arkansas border. The surface is colored according to the height of the surface with red being the highest. The higher the surface, the more intense the convection is. Echoes near this intensity that penetrate above the -10 to -20 degrees Celsius level are also a good indication of the potential for cloud-to-ground lightning. The cluster of magenta crosses along the squall line confirm the intensity of lightning in the region.TRMM [ http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ], is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC).
Thunderstorms in the Central …
Title Thunderstorms in the Central United States
Description It is not uncommon for severe weather to strike the plains of the midwestern United States in the spring. Storm systems organizing east of the Rockies in the springtime are known for delivering severe weather to the central United States. This was the case on May 13 and 14, 2005, when cold air coming down from the Rockies collided with warm, moist air coming up from the Gulf of Mexico. Strong storms with hail and gusty winds pounded the country from the panhandle of Texas into the Ohio valley and Mid-Atlantic. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite captured these images of the storms on May 14. The top image shows an instantaneous snapshot of a storm complex that extended from northern Texas into eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas. The image was taken at 1:29 a.m. U.S. Central Daylight time and shows the horizontal distribution of rain intensity as seen from above. Rain rates in the center swath are from TRMM's precipitation radar—the first and only precipitation radar in space—while rain rates in the outer swath are from the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI). The rain rates are overlaid on infrared (IR) data from the TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner (VIRS). In this image, a wavy squall-line type system stretches across eastern Oklahoma. A squall line is characterized by a linear convective leading edge having strong updrafts and heavy rain (red areas) followed by stratiform rain, a broad area of light rain (green and blue areas). Strong winds can distort the linear features of a squall line into the sort of wavy pattern seen here, and indeed, wind damage was reported in Oklahoma and Arkansas where the squall line passed. More intense convective cells (dark red) sit over north-central Texas, where there were several hail reports associated with the storms. The storm also produced a great deal of lightning, as revealed by the lightning data from the TRMM Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS), which have been overlaid on the rain rates in the top image. The clusters of magenta-colored crosses indicate areas of lightning activity observed near the time of the image and include cloud-to-cloud, cloud-to-ground, and intracloud flashes. The lower image shows a 3-D perspective view of the 30-decibel radar echo, the type of signal received over regions of moderately intense rain, associated with the squall line along the Oklahoma-Arkansas border. The surface is colored according to the height of the surface with red being the highest. The higher the surface, the more intense the convection is. Echoes near this intensity that penetrate above the -10 to -20 degrees Celsius level are also a good indication of the potential for cloud-to-ground lightning. The cluster of magenta crosses along the squall line confirm the intensity of lightning in the region.TRMM [ http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ], is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC).
Thunderstorms in the Midwest …
Title Thunderstorms in the Midwestern United States
Description A slow-moving weather front was responsible for spreading severe storms and flooding across parts of the southeastern and mid-western United States on September 23 and September 24, 2006. The storms occurred when low air pressure over the Central Plains drew warm, humid air up from the Gulf of Mexico. The warm air interacted with strong, upper-level winds. There were numerous reports of tornados, hail, and wind damage on Friday, September 22, across southeastern Missouri and the central Mississippi Valley. On Saturday, September 23, the focus shifted eastward into Tennessee and eastern Kentucky, with the primary threat being damaging winds. Overall, a total of 12 people died as a result of the storms, according to the Associated Press, but most of the fatalities were due to flash flooding [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=13894 ] in Kentucky. These images, based on data collected by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite (known as TRMM [ http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ]), show the flood-producing rains. The top image shows rainfall totals for September 23 and September 24 derived from the TRMM-based, near-real-time, Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, which monitors rainfall over the global tropics. Dark red areas along the Arkansas-Missouri border and stretching into far western Kentucky indicate that rain amounts exceeded 10 inches (about 250 millimeters). Five-inch amounts (130 millimeters, shown in green) stretch from western Oklahoma and up through the Ohio Valley. The lower image shows an instantaneous snapshot of the actual storms as they swept through the Midwest. The image was taken by TRMM at 18:25 UTC (1:15 p.m. CDT) on September 23, 2006, and it shows the distribution of rain intensity as seen from above. A long line of storms (green area) moves southwest to northeast through the central Mississippi Valley. The storms are followed by a broader area of light rain (broad blue area). Areas of intense rainfall (darker reds) associated with heavier thunderstorms are located over northeast Texas, western Kentucky, and eastern Tennessee. Rain rates in the center of the swath are from the TRMM Precipitation Radar, while those in the outer swath are from the TRMM Microwave Imager. The rain rates are overlaid on infrared data from the TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency, JAXA. Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC).
Thunderstorms in the Midwest …
Title Thunderstorms in the Midwestern United States
Description A slow-moving weather front was responsible for spreading severe storms and flooding across parts of the southeastern and mid-western United States on September 23 and September 24, 2006. The storms occurred when low air pressure over the Central Plains drew warm, humid air up from the Gulf of Mexico. The warm air interacted with strong, upper-level winds. There were numerous reports of tornados, hail, and wind damage on Friday, September 22, across southeastern Missouri and the central Mississippi Valley. On Saturday, September 23, the focus shifted eastward into Tennessee and eastern Kentucky, with the primary threat being damaging winds. Overall, a total of 12 people died as a result of the storms, according to the Associated Press, but most of the fatalities were due to flash flooding [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=13894 ] in Kentucky. These images, based on data collected by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite (known as TRMM [ http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ]), show the flood-producing rains. The top image shows rainfall totals for September 23 and September 24 derived from the TRMM-based, near-real-time, Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, which monitors rainfall over the global tropics. Dark red areas along the Arkansas-Missouri border and stretching into far western Kentucky indicate that rain amounts exceeded 10 inches (about 250 millimeters). Five-inch amounts (130 millimeters, shown in green) stretch from western Oklahoma and up through the Ohio Valley. The lower image shows an instantaneous snapshot of the actual storms as they swept through the Midwest. The image was taken by TRMM at 18:25 UTC (1:15 p.m. CDT) on September 23, 2006, and it shows the distribution of rain intensity as seen from above. A long line of storms (green area) moves southwest to northeast through the central Mississippi Valley. The storms are followed by a broader area of light rain (broad blue area). Areas of intense rainfall (darker reds) associated with heavier thunderstorms are located over northeast Texas, western Kentucky, and eastern Tennessee. Rain rates in the center of the swath are from the TRMM Precipitation Radar, while those in the outer swath are from the TRMM Microwave Imager. The rain rates are overlaid on infrared data from the TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency, JAXA. Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC).
Flooding in Northeast Arkans …
Title Flooding in Northeast Arkansas
Description Springtime showers and thunderstorms dumped heavy rains over parts of northwestern Arkansas and south central Missouri over the weekend. Hardest hit was northwestern Arkansas where two children were swept away by flood waters west of Huntsville, Arkansas. A stationary front draped across central Arkansas from northern Texas to the Mid-Atlantic region provided the focus for strong storms as southerly winds pumped low-level moisture up from the Gulf of Mexico. This image shows an instantaneous snapshot of the storms that led to the flooding taken by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite. The image was taken at 06:30 UTC on 24 April 2004. It shows the horizontal distribution of rain intensity as seen from above by the TRMM satellite. Rain rates in the center swath are from the TRMM Precipitation Radar (PR), the first and only precipitation radar in space, and rain rates in the outer swath are from the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI). The rain rates are overlaid on infrared (IR) data from the TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner VIRS). TRMM shows three different mesoscale convective systems known as MCSs: one over south central Texas, one over north central Texas and one along the Oklahoma-Arkansas border. MCSs typically contain showers and/or thundershowers along their leading edge that contain strong updrafts and produce heavy rain (as seen by the red areas) followed by or adjacent to areas of stratiform rain with weaker rainrates (green areas). The southernmost MCS has a horseshoe type shape indicative of a mature MCS whereby strong winds entering the rear of the system deform the storms along the leading edge into a bow shape. Convection in the middle MCS is more linear and very intense as shown by the dark red areas indicative of a squall line. The third MCS that is farthest north has a broad area of stratiform rain (green area) of moderate intensity centered on the convection. An additional image shows a vertical slice taken by the TRMM PR through the central MCS looking east. It shows intense rainrates associated with the leading edge convection. The leading edge is made up of many convective elements as evidenced by the cellular nature of the intense echoes (dark red areas) associated with the numerous protruding towers (green and yellow areas extending vertically). TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC).
Flooding in Northeast Arkans …
Title Flooding in Northeast Arkansas
Description Springtime showers and thunderstorms dumped heavy rains over parts of northwestern Arkansas and south central Missouri over the weekend. Hardest hit was northwestern Arkansas where two children were swept away by flood waters west of Huntsville, Arkansas. A stationary front draped across central Arkansas from northern Texas to the Mid-Atlantic region provided the focus for strong storms as southerly winds pumped low-level moisture up from the Gulf of Mexico. This image shows an instantaneous snapshot of the storms that led to the flooding taken by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite. The image was taken at 06:30 UTC on 24 April 2004. It shows the horizontal distribution of rain intensity as seen from above by the TRMM satellite. Rain rates in the center swath are from the TRMM Precipitation Radar (PR), the first and only precipitation radar in space, and rain rates in the outer swath are from the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI). The rain rates are overlaid on infrared (IR) data from the TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner VIRS). TRMM shows three different mesoscale convective systems known as MCSs: one over south central Texas, one over north central Texas and one along the Oklahoma-Arkansas border. MCSs typically contain showers and/or thundershowers along their leading edge that contain strong updrafts and produce heavy rain (as seen by the red areas) followed by or adjacent to areas of stratiform rain with weaker rainrates (green areas). The southernmost MCS has a horseshoe type shape indicative of a mature MCS whereby strong winds entering the rear of the system deform the storms along the leading edge into a bow shape. Convection in the middle MCS is more linear and very intense as shown by the dark red areas indicative of a squall line. The third MCS that is farthest north has a broad area of stratiform rain (green area) of moderate intensity centered on the convection. An additional image shows a vertical slice taken by the TRMM PR through the central MCS looking east. It shows intense rainrates associated with the leading edge convection. The leading edge is made up of many convective elements as evidenced by the cellular nature of the intense echoes (dark red areas) associated with the numerous protruding towers (green and yellow areas extending vertically). TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC).
Flooding in Northeast Arkans …
Title Flooding in Northeast Arkansas
Description Springtime showers and thunderstorms dumped heavy rains over parts of northwestern Arkansas and south central Missouri over the weekend. Hardest hit was northwestern Arkansas where two children were swept away by flood waters west of Huntsville, Arkansas. A stationary front draped across central Arkansas from northern Texas to the Mid-Atlantic region provided the focus for strong storms as southerly winds pumped low-level moisture up from the Gulf of Mexico. This image shows an instantaneous snapshot of the storms that led to the flooding taken by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite. The image was taken at 06:30 UTC on 24 April 2004. It shows the horizontal distribution of rain intensity as seen from above by the TRMM satellite. Rain rates in the center swath are from the TRMM Precipitation Radar (PR), the first and only precipitation radar in space, and rain rates in the outer swath are from the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI). The rain rates are overlaid on infrared (IR) data from the TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner VIRS). TRMM shows three different mesoscale convective systems known as MCSs: one over south central Texas, one over north central Texas and one along the Oklahoma-Arkansas border. MCSs typically contain showers and/or thundershowers along their leading edge that contain strong updrafts and produce heavy rain (as seen by the red areas) followed by or adjacent to areas of stratiform rain with weaker rainrates (green areas). The southernmost MCS has a horseshoe type shape indicative of a mature MCS whereby strong winds entering the rear of the system deform the storms along the leading edge into a bow shape. Convection in the middle MCS is more linear and very intense as shown by the dark red areas indicative of a squall line. The third MCS that is farthest north has a broad area of stratiform rain (green area) of moderate intensity centered on the convection. An additional image shows a vertical slice taken by the TRMM PR through the central MCS looking east. It shows intense rainrates associated with the leading edge convection. The leading edge is made up of many convective elements as evidenced by the cellular nature of the intense echoes (dark red areas) associated with the numerous protruding towers (green and yellow areas extending vertically). TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC).
Flooding in Northeast Arkans …
Title Flooding in Northeast Arkansas
Description Springtime showers and thunderstorms dumped heavy rains over parts of northwestern Arkansas and south central Missouri over the weekend. Hardest hit was northwestern Arkansas where two children were swept away by flood waters west of Huntsville, Arkansas. A stationary front draped across central Arkansas from northern Texas to the Mid-Atlantic region provided the focus for strong storms as southerly winds pumped low-level moisture up from the Gulf of Mexico. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite uses both passive and active sensors to examine rainfall from space. The TRMM-based, near-real time Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center monitors rainfall over the global tropics. MPA rainfall totals for the period 23-25 April 2004 show up to a foot of rain (dark red areas) may have fallen over the northern Ozarks near the Arkansas-Missouri border. The heaviest rains fell on the evening of Friday the 23rd and early morning of Saturday the 24th (local time). TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC).
Flooding in Northeast Arkans …
Title Flooding in Northeast Arkansas
Description Springtime showers and thunderstorms dumped heavy rains over parts of northwestern Arkansas and south central Missouri over the weekend. Hardest hit was northwestern Arkansas where two children were swept away by flood waters west of Huntsville, Arkansas. A stationary front draped across central Arkansas from northern Texas to the Mid-Atlantic region provided the focus for strong storms as southerly winds pumped low-level moisture up from the Gulf of Mexico. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite uses both passive and active sensors to examine rainfall from space. The TRMM-based, near-real time Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center monitors rainfall over the global tropics. MPA rainfall totals for the period 23-25 April 2004 show up to a foot of rain (dark red areas) may have fallen over the northern Ozarks near the Arkansas-Missouri border. The heaviest rains fell on the evening of Friday the 23rd and early morning of Saturday the 24th (local time). TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC).
Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas a …
Title Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas as seen from the Apollo 6 unmanned spacecraft
Description Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, as photographed from the Apollo 6 (Spacecraft 020/Saturn 502) unmanned space mission. Visible in this photograph are Shreveport, Texarkana, El Dorado, Lake Gaddo, Texarkana Reservoir, Red River, and cloud cover.
Date 04.06.1968
Tornadoes in Oklahoma and Mi …
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Floods in the U.S. Midwest: …
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An early spring storm system …
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Heavy Rain in the US Midwest …
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The powerful storms that mov …
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First Blizzard of the Season …
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Growing-Season Fires in Cent …
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Agricultural burning in prep …
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Fires in Southern United Sta …
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The combination of parched v …
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April Showers Bring May Flow …
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Vigorous vegetation growth i …
PIA04358
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date 2004-05-03
creator NASA -- Image courtesy NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, www-misr.jpl.nasa.gov/ MISR Team. Text by Clare Averill (Raytheon ITSS/Jet Propulsion Laboratory).
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Growing-Season Fires in Cent …
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Agricultural burning in prep …
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Smoke from Alaskan Fires ove …
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This image of the southern U …
ge_13524
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Fires Across South Central U …
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On Wednesday, October 16, 20 …
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Fires Across Southern United …
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This image of fires in the s …
UnitedStates.AMOA2004070
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date 2004-03-10
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Dust Storm in Texas: Image o …
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The same hot, dry, windy con …
texas_amo_2006001
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date 2006-01-01
creator NASA -- NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained courtesy of the rapidfire.gsfc.nasa.gov/ MODIS Rapid Response team.
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Hurricane Rita: Natural Haza …
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After forming east of the Tu …
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Rain in the U.S. Midwest: Im …
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The powerful storms that mov …
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creator NASA -- NASA image courtesy Jesse Allen based on data provided by the http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/ TRMM team. Caption by Steve Lang.
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Rain in the U.S. Midwest: Im …
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The powerful storms that mov …
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creator NASA -- NASA image courtesy Jesse Allen based on data provided by the http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/ TRMM team. Caption by Steve Lang.
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Thunderstorms in the Central …
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creator NASA -- Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC).
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Deadly Rains in the U.S. Mid …
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An early spring storm system …
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Deadly Rains in the U.S. Mid …
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An early spring storm system …
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Fires in the Southern U.S.A. …
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Drought, high temperatures, …
texas_amo_2005362
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creator NASA -- NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained courtesy of the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ MODIS Rapid Response team.
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Thunderstorms Bring Floods t …
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