GOES-R Rapid Refresh 1-min Imagery with Lightning Mapping Array

This animation, from a severe weather event on June 13, 2013, provides weather forecasters and broadcast meteorologists a glimpse of the future with GOES-R.

Created by combining special GOES-14 Super Rapid Scan imagery with the Washington, D.C. Lightning Mapping Array (DCLMA), this video simulates the data that the GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) and Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) will produce following GOES-R's launch in October 2016.

The tracks and locations of two tornados (red lines/circles) are overlaid to highlight the important relationship between lightning activity and severe storms.

Video credit:Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies at the University of Maryland