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GOES-8 animation showing the thunderstorm development

Dec 2001

visible visualization information
infrared visualization information

This GOES-8 animations shows thunderstorms over Texas that produced an F5 tornado which touched down in Jarrell, Texas killing 27 people. A grayscale visible channel animation and a color 11 micron infrared animation are labeled with UTC time, the tornado in Jarrell occurred around 3:40 pm CDT or 20:40 UTC.


visible channel animation
Small jpg movie , 320x180, 0.8 MB
Medium jpg movie , 640x360, 3.3 MB
Small sorenson movie , 320x180, 0.6 MB
Medium sorenson movie , 640x360, 2.5 MB



visible channel animation
Small jpg movie , 320x180, 0.8 MB
Medium jpg movie , 640x360, 3.3 MB
Small sorenson movie , 320x180, 0.6 MB
Medium sorenson movie , 640x360, 2.5 MB

A 28 MB mpeg2 version of the infrared visualization that can be played on the Electrasonic HDTV HD players can be found at ftp://gloria2-f.gsfc.nasa.gov/mpeg2/val/texas_ir4.mpg

A 14 MB mpeg2 version of the visible visualization that can be played on the Electrasonic HDTV HD players can be found at ftp://gloria2-f.gsfc.nasa.gov/mpeg2/val/texas_vis.mpg