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Service Description: Note: this data is currently in testing and is experimental.
Date of Images:
Post-Event: 4/2/2025-4/6/2025
Summary:
Storms that produce damaging winds, hail, and tornadoes often exhibit distinct cloud-top patterns in satellite imagery. Two of these patterns, overshooting tops (OTs) and above-anvil cirrus plumes (AACPs), are frequently observed over intense storms. Using deep learning techniques, researchers at NASA Langley Research Center developed software to automatically detect these severe storm signatures in 500m GOES satellite data collected every 5 minutes.
Emergency managers can use this raster data to quickly identify locations where severe storms likely occurred, complementing ground-based reports in regions with limited observations. Severe weather on the ground is more likely when OTs and AACPs are both detected and in areas where detections are clustered or observed repeatedly. Long, nearly straight lines of OT and AACP time-aggregated detections can indicate severe storm tracks.
Suggested Use and Use Cases:
Target audiences: GIS specialists, tactical emergency managers
Information Needed: Near real-time situational awareness about locations where severe storm impacts may have occurred.
Example Uses: Target additional information collection. Prioritize field activities (e.g. assessments, resource allocation).
Value Proposition: Low resolution, low latency data shows areas that may have recently or may soon experience severe weather (nowcasting).
Satellite/Sensor
Satellite: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Satellite remote sensing over North & South America
Resolution: 5 minute temporal resolution observation frequency, 500m spatial resolution
Product Specifications:
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Capability type
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Experimental
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Data type
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Raster of binary OT detections aggregated over a designated
incident time frame
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Min. update frequency
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Daily during working hours
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Area coverage
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Bounded subset
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Other key attributes
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Earliest detection time - earliest time (in UTC) an overshooting top was flagged.
Count of observations - the number of Overshooting Tops detected within each geostationary satellite 0.5 km pixel for every 5 min conus scan from 2 April 12UTC - 6 April 12UTC.
Binary Overshooting Detection Flag - indicator for if any overshooting top was detected over a given 0.5km pixel.
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Visualization
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Single-color raster map
Time-aggregated plots of severe storm signatures
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Caveats:
While the presence of OTs and AACPs often correlates with severe weather, this product does not observe ground impacts and may detect features that do not correspond to severe weather.
Esri REST Endpoint:
See URL on the right side of the page.
WMS Endpoint:
https://maps.disasters.nasa.gov/ags03/services/us_svrwx_202504/severe_storm/MapServer/WMSServer
Data Download:
https://maps.disasters.nasa.gov/download/gis_products/event_specific/2025/us_svrwx_202504/severestorm/
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Description: Note: this data is currently in testing and is experimental.Date of Images:Post-Event: 4/2/2025-4/6/2025Summary:Storms that produce damaging winds, hail, and tornadoes often exhibit distinct cloud-top patterns in satellite imagery. Two of these patterns, overshooting tops (OTs) and above-anvil cirrus plumes (AACPs), are frequently observed over intense storms. Using deep learning techniques, researchers at NASA Langley Research Center developed software to automatically detect these severe storm signatures in 500m GOES satellite data collected every 5 minutes. Emergency managers can use this raster data to quickly identify locations where severe storms likely occurred, complementing ground-based reports in regions with limited observations. Severe weather on the ground is more likely when OTs and AACPs are both detected and in areas where detections are clustered or observed repeatedly. Long, nearly straight lines of OT and AACP time-aggregated detections can indicate severe storm tracks.Suggested Use and Use Cases:Target audiences: GIS specialists, tactical emergency managersInformation Needed: Near real-time situational awareness about locations where severe storm impacts may have occurred. Example Uses: Target additional information collection. Prioritize field activities (e.g. assessments, resource allocation). Value Proposition: Low resolution, low latency data shows areas that may have recently or may soon experience severe weather (nowcasting).Satellite/SensorSatellite: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Satellite remote sensing over North & South AmericaResolution: 5 minute temporal resolution observation frequency, 500m spatial resolutionProduct Specifications:
Capability type
Experimental
Data type
Raster of binary OT detections aggregated over a designated
incident time frame
Min. update frequency
Daily during working hours
Area coverage
Bounded subset
Other key attributes
Earliest detection time - earliest time (in UTC) an overshooting top was flagged.
Count of observations - the number of Overshooting Tops detected within each geostationary satellite 0.5 km pixel for every 5 min conus scan from 2 April 12UTC - 6 April 12UTC.
Binary Overshooting Detection Flag - indicator for if any overshooting top was detected over a given 0.5km pixel.
Visualization
Single-color raster map
Time-aggregated plots of severe storm signatures
Caveats:While the presence of OTs and AACPs often correlates with severe weather, this product does not observe ground impacts and may detect features that do not correspond to severe weather.Esri REST Endpoint:See URL on the right side of the page.WMS Endpoint:https://maps.disasters.nasa.gov/ags03/services/us_svrwx_202504/severe_storm/MapServer/WMSServerData Download:https://maps.disasters.nasa.gov/download/gis_products/event_specific/2025/us_svrwx_202504/severestorm/
Service Item Id: 06e4feb95ba5401d87f8a6fc493eee1e
Copyright Text: NASA; Jack Cooney, Kris Bedka
Spatial Reference:
4326
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Single Fused Map Cache: false
Initial Extent:
XMin: -98.14614769000575
YMin: 30.304574271555374
XMax: -82.48828692213543
YMax: 38.69364443337607
Spatial Reference: 4326
(4326)
Full Extent:
XMin: -127.78816772438448
YMin: 25.309120951479386
XMax: -73.48816894553738
YMax: 52.90912033078288
Spatial Reference: 4326
(4326)
Units: esriDecimalDegrees
Supported Image Format Types: PNG32,PNG24,PNG,JPG,DIB,TIFF,EMF,PS,PDF,GIF,SVG,SVGZ,BMP
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Title: severe_storm
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Comments: Note: this data is currently in testing and is experimental.Date of Images:Post-Event: 4/2/2025-4/6/2025Summary:Storms that produce damaging winds, hail, and tornadoes often exhibit distinct cloud-top patterns in satellite imagery. Two of these patterns, overshooting tops (OTs) and above-anvil cirrus plumes (AACPs), are frequently observed over intense storms. Using deep learning techniques, researchers at NASA Langley Research Center developed software to automatically detect these severe storm signatures in 500m GOES satellite data collected every 5 minutes. Emergency managers can use this raster data to quickly identify locations where severe storms likely occurred, complementing ground-based reports in regions with limited observations. Severe weather on the ground is more likely when OTs and AACPs are both detected and in areas where detections are clustered or observed repeatedly. Long, nearly straight lines of OT and AACP time-aggregated detections can indicate severe storm tracks.Suggested Use and Use Cases:Target audiences: GIS specialists, tactical emergency managersInformation Needed: Near real-time situational awareness about locations where severe storm impacts may have occurred. Example Uses: Target additional information collection. Prioritize field activities (e.g. assessments, resource allocation). Value Proposition: Low resolution, low latency data shows areas that may have recently or may soon experience severe weather (nowcasting).Satellite/SensorSatellite: GOES Satellite remote sensing over North & South AmericaResolution: 15 minutes observation frequency over Full-disk, CONUSCaveats:While the presence of OTs and AACPs often correlates with severe weather, this product does not observe ground impacts and may detect features that do not correspond to severe weather.
Subject: Severe Weather Detection Product using Overshooting Tops for the US Severe Storm April 2025 (Experimental).
Category:
Keywords: Severe weather,troposphere,NASA,NASA Disasters,storm,updraft,tornado
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