NOAAVisualizations | Tornadoes in Oklahoma, May 9, 2016 @NOAAVisualizations | Uploaded 8 years ago | Updated 3 hours ago
On May 9, 2016, a series of severe storms swept through Oklahoma and Nebraska. The storms spawned several deadly tornadoes throughout the day that claimed two lives and destroyed several homes.
This video, created using 1-minute visible imagery from the GOES-14 satellite, shows the developing storm systems and the trailing tornadoes from 7:15 am EDT through 9:47 pm EDT. The intricate detail of the storms was captured by placing GOES-14 into a special rapid scan mode, known as SRSO-R, that acquires data every minute, simulating the future real-time storm-tracking and imagery capabilities of the forthcoming GOES-R satellite series.
Scientists have been performing these simulated "test runs" since 2012 with GOES-14 to periodically collect nearly continuous rapid-scan imagery. Once launched and operational, GOES-R will provide scans of Earth five times faster and at four times the image resolution than previous geostationary satellites.
On May 9, 2016, a series of severe storms swept through Oklahoma and Nebraska. The storms spawned several deadly tornadoes throughout the day that claimed two lives and destroyed several homes.
This video, created using 1-minute visible imagery from the GOES-14 satellite, shows the developing storm systems and the trailing tornadoes from 7:15 am EDT through 9:47 pm EDT. The intricate detail of the storms was captured by placing GOES-14 into a special rapid scan mode, known as SRSO-R, that acquires data every minute, simulating the future real-time storm-tracking and imagery capabilities of the forthcoming GOES-R satellite series.
Scientists have been performing these simulated "test runs" since 2012 with GOES-14 to periodically collect nearly continuous rapid-scan imagery. Once launched and operational, GOES-R will provide scans of Earth five times faster and at four times the image resolution than previous geostationary satellites.
