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-East is pointing mesoscale sector 1 at a point about 70 mi ESE of Washington, DC — 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
- 38.6°N, 75.8°W view on map
- Window
- from until
- Reason given
- severe wx ops in the Mid-Atlantic and southern New England
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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 160727 ADMSDM SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD 0727Z FRI OCT 16 2026 MDS STATUS... GOES-E MDS Sector 1 will be centered over 38.6N/75.8W from 1200Z to 17/1200Z in support of severe wx ops in the Mid-Atlantic and southern New England. Kempisty/SDM/NCO