NOAA's Operational Significant Event Imagery

Welcome to the Operational Significant Event Imagery (OSEI) Homepage...

...our most recent Daily Operational Significant Events Support Report is below.

Images listed below can be found together in the "../Events/Current" directory on the server:
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/

You can access this directory through the "Current" button in the navigation bar of the web site.

Satellite information that appears in filenames below:

G12 - GOES-12 **see below**
G10 - GOES-10
G11 - GOES-11
G13 - GOES-13
GJ - MTSAT
MT - METEOSAT
N5 - NOAA-15
N6 - NOAA-16
N7 - NOAA-17
N8 - NOAA-18
MO - MODIS

For information on solar flares and geomagnetic storms be sure to visit NOAA's Space Environment Center at:
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/SWN/

The following categories of significant events were searched for in imagery available in the Satellite Services Division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:

1. Fires - no imagery posted
2. Floods - GOES-12
3. Tropical Systems- no imagery posted
4. Volcanoes - no imagery posted
5. Ocean - no imagery posted
6. Ice - no imagery posted
7. Dust Storms - no imagery posted
8. Storms - no imagery posted
9. Severe - no imagery posted
10. Snow Cover - no imagery posted
11. Unique - no imagery posted

Significant events identified by Satellite Analysis Branch meteorologists and reviewed by the Operational Significant Event Imagery support team Friday May 01, 2009 are as follows:

IMAGE D6140: GOES-12 <> Image Type=combine <> 5/01/2009 17:15 UTC.
This GOES-12 satellite image shows a thunderstorm complex that has dropped more than 5 inches of rain in areas Northeast of Tulsa, OK since this morning.
Image provided in preview (~62K) and standard (293K) formats.

Preview (500X472):

http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Current/FLDusPL121_G12L.jpg
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Current/FLDusPL121_G12L.jpg

Standard (800x550)

http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Current/FLDusPL121_G12.jpg
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Current/FLDusPL121_G12.jpg

The NOAA Operational Significant Event Imagery Support Team
Interactive Processing Branch, (E/SP22)
tel: (301) 763-8142
fax: (301) 899-9196

If you have any questions or comments, please contact the appropriate OSEI scientist:
Curtis Holland OSEI Team Leader

Curtis.Holland@noaa.gov 301-763-8142

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