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Spotting Severe Storms with Satellites

Overshooting tops and above-anvil cirrus plumes are clues that an especially destructive thunderstorm is brewing below.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Spotting Severe Storms with Satellites.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published May 19, 2022
Data acquired May 15, 2022