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The May 15--17, 2013 tornado outbreak was a small, but intense and deadly tornado outbreak that produced several damaging tornadoes in northern Texas, south-central Oklahoma, northern Louisiana, and northern Alabama. The outbreak produced 23 tornadoes, including a deadly EF4 that struck the town of Granbury, Texas, where six people were killed.
Satellite observations show the clouds associated with these outbreaks of severe weather from May 15 to May 21, 2013, over the south central United States. Over the course of seven days many tornadoes touched down including two EF-4 tornadoes and one EF-5 tornado. All of the weather systems that spawned these outbreaks are shown in this video, which uses visible-light data of clouds from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite, overlaid on a U.S. map created with imagery from MODIS data, an instrument that flies aboard both the NASA Aqua and Terra satellites.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_15%E2%80%9317,_2013_tornado_outbreak
Credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project This visualization was created by the NASA GOES Project at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md
The May 15--17, 2013 tornado outbreak was a small, but intense and deadly tornado outbreak that produced several damaging tornadoes in northern Texas, south-central Oklahoma, northern Louisiana, and northern Alabama. The outbreak produced 23 tornadoes, including a deadly EF4 that struck the town of Granbury, Texas, where six people were killed.
Satellite observations show the clouds associated with these outbreaks of severe weather from May 15 to May 21, 2013, over the south central United States. Over the course of seven days many tornadoes touched down including two EF-4 tornadoes and one EF-5 tornado. All of the weather systems that spawned these outbreaks are shown in this video, which uses visible-light data of clouds from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite, overlaid on a U.S. map created with imagery from MODIS data, an instrument that flies aboard both the NASA Aqua and Terra satellites.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_15%E2%80%9317,_2013_tornado_outbreak
Credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project This visualization was created by the NASA GOES Project at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md
