Tropical Storm Claudette over Texas and Mexico - related image preview

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Tropical Storm Claudette over Texas and Mexico

On July 16, 2003, former Hurricane Claudette continued to look like a tropical storm, its swirling rings of clouds centered over the West Texas panhandle-Mexico border. This Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) from the Terra satellite from that day also shows fires in New Mexico and Arizona at top left (marked in red). Along the coast of Texas (right edge), puffy white clouds suggest coastal communities may still be experiencing rainfall, even though the bulk of the storm has moved westward since landfall on July 15.


Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Published July 17, 2003
Data acquired July 16 - 16, 2003

Source:
Terra > MODIS
Topics:
Atmosphere > Atmospheric Phenomena > Hurricanes
Atmosphere > Atmospheric Phenomena > Storms
Human Dimensions > Natural Hazards > Fires
Collections:
MODIS Rapid Response
Visible Earth