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 560 mi E of Hilo, 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
- 20.5°N, 146.5°W view on map
- Window
- from until
- Reason given
- monitoring Hurricane Fausto in the East Pacific. GOES-W MDS Sector 1 will be centered over 44.6N/120.7W from 1800Z to 28/0000Z in support of research on the Brewer Fire. GOES-W MDS Sector 2 will be centered over 17.5N/115W from 1200Z to 28/1200Z in support of monitoring Hurricane Genevieve 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 271132 ADMSDM SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD 1132Z MON JUL 27 2026 MDS STATUS... GOES-W MDS Sector 1 will be centered over 20.5N/146.5W from now to 27/1800Z in support of monitoring Hurricane Fausto in the East Pacific. GOES-W MDS Sector 1 will be centered over 44.6N/120.7W from 1800Z to 28/0000Z in support of research on the Brewer Fire. GOES-W MDS Sector 2 will be centered over 17.5N/115W from 1200Z to 28/1200Z in support of monitoring Hurricane Genevieve in the East Pacific. Green/SDM/NCO