Satellite sector moved
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An operational notice from the Senior Duty Meteorologist.
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-East is pointing mesoscale sector 1 at a point about 50 mi S of Dodge City, KS — to support severe thunderstorm and tornado forecasting. 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
- 37.0°N, 100.0°W view on map
- Window
- from until
- Reason given
- severe wx ops over the Central and Southern Plains
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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 201500 ADMSDM SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD 1458Z SUN SEP 20 2026 The 12Z GFS is running on time. MDS STATUS... GOES-E MDS Sector 1 is centered over 37N/100W from 1440Z to 21/1200Z in support of severe wx ops over the Central and Southern Plains. Handel/SDM/NCO