Satellite sector moved
Satellite moves MDS STATUS...
Each GOES weather satellite has two “mesoscale sectors” — small, movable windows that the satellite photographs roughly every 60 seconds, far more often than its routine full-disk and continental scans. Forecasters aim them at whatever is most important that day. This section announces where they are being pointed and for how long.
GOES-West is pointing mesoscale sector 1 over the central Pacific, about 495 mi W of Honolulu, HI — to keep a close eye on a tropical system. That means this patch of sky gets a fresh satellite image about once a minute instead of every 5 to 10 minutes, so forecasters can watch storms develop almost in real time.
- Centre point
- 22.0°N, 165.5°W view on map
- Window
- from until
- Reason given
- monitoring TS Nolo in the Central Pacific. GOES-W MDS Sector 2 will be centered over 19.5N/109.3W from 0000Z to 02/0000Z in support of monitoring Hurricane Rachel in the East Pacific
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Exactly as NWS transmitted it. Everything above is our plain-English reading of this text — if the two ever disagree, this is the authoritative version.
000 NOUS42 KWNO 302337 ADMSDM SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD 2336Z WED SEP 30 2026 MDS STATUS... GOES-W MDS Sector 1 will be centered over 22N/165.5W from 0000Z to 01/1440Z and 01/1540Z to 02/0000Z in support of monitoring TS Nolo in the Central Pacific. GOES-W MDS Sector 2 will be centered over 19.5N/109.3W from 0000Z to 02/0000Z in support of monitoring Hurricane Rachel in the East Pacific. Green/SDM/NCO