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 to a new position — to support fire weather operations. 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.
- Window
- until
- Reason given
- fire severe wx ops over the Four Corners area and the Rockies as well as flash flooding ops in southern AZ
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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 092040 ADMSDM SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD 2039Z SUN AUG 09 2026 MDS STATUS... GOES-W MDS Sector 1 has been shifted southwest centered at 37N/108.5 until 10/1200Z in support of fire severe wx ops over the Four Corners area and the Rockies as well as flash flooding ops in southern AZ. Renkevens/SDM/NCO