NOAA's National Weather Service SPC Tornado/Severe Thunderstorm Watches Update

SPC Tornado Watch 298 Status Reports

06/12/2013 03:26 PM EDT

WW 0298 Status Updates

    STATUS REPORT ON WW 298 

THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES ACROSS THE ENTIRE 

WATCH AREA.    ..BUNTING..06/12/13 

ATTN...WFO...ARX...DVN...DMX...LOT...MKX... 

STATUS REPORT FOR WT 298 

SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS 

ILC007-011-015-037-073-085-099-103-141-155-161-177-195-

201-  122040-    IL   . 

ILLINOIS COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE 

BOONE                BUREAU              CARROLL 

DE KALB              HENRY               JO DAVIESS 

LA SALLE             LEE                 OGLE 

PUTNAM               ROCK ISLAND         STEPHENSON 

WHITESIDE            WINNEBAGO 

IAC005-011-013-017-019-023-031-033-037-043-045-055-061-

065-067-  069-075-079-081-083-089-095-097-103-105-113-

131-139-163-171-189-  191-195-197-122040-    IA   . 

IOWA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE 

ALLAMAKEE            BENTON              BLACK HAWK 

BREMER               BUCHANAN            BUTLER 

CEDAR                CERRO GORDO         CHICKASAW 

CLAYTON              CLINTON             DELAWARE 

DUBUQUE              FAYETTE             FLOYD 

FRANKLIN             GRUNDY              HAMILTON 

NASA'S Chandra Turns up Black Hole Bonanza in Galaxy Next Door

NASA'S Chandra Turns up Black Hole Bonanza in Galaxy Next Door

06/12/2013 12:00 AM EDT

Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have discovered an unprecedented bonanza of black holes in the Andromeda Galaxy, one of the nearest galaxies to the Milky Way.

Handling ‘big data’ is no small feat

Handling 'big data' is no small feat

12-06-2013 04:39 PM CEST

Policy-makers and science and industry representatives are discussing how to make large amounts of Earth observation data accessible to a wider user community.

Preparing IRIS Spacecraft for Launch

Preparing IRIS Spacecraft for Launch

06/12/2013 12:00 AM EDT

Orbital Sciences team members move the second half of the payload fairing before it is placed over NASA's IRIS (Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph) spacecraft. The fairing connects to the nose of the Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket that will lift the solar observatory into orbit.

The work is taking place in a hangar at Vandenberg Air Force Base, where IRIS is being prepared for launch on a Pegasus XL rocket.Scheduled for launch from Vandenberg on June 26, 2013, IRIS will open a new window of discovery by tracing the flow of energy and plasma through the chromospheres and transition region into the sun's corona using spectrometry and imaging.

IRIS fills a crucial gap in our ability to advance studies of the sun-to-Earth connection by tracing the flow of energy and plasma through the foundation of the corona and the region around the sun known as the heliosphere.

Photo Credit: NASA/Tony Vauclin

Bubbles and fluid flow in microgravity

Bubbles and fluid flow in microgravity

11-06-2013 01:50 PM CEST

A new study into the behaviour of bubbles has been published based on a student experiment conducted as part of ESA Education's Drop Your Thesis! Programme. The results will be useful for understanding any system that uses fluids in space – including life support.

NOAA's National Weather Service SPC Tornado/Severe Thunderstorm Watches Update

SPC Center Public Severe Weather Outlook (PWO)

06/12/2013 05:03 AM EDT

Public Severe Weather Outlook

  PUBLIC SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK 

NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 

0402 AM CDT WED JUN 12 2013 

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED OVER PARTS OF THE 

UPPER MIDWEST  INTO THE OHIO VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON 

AND TONIGHT... 

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OK IS 

FORECASTING THE  DEVELOPMENT OF WIDESPREAD DAMAGING 

WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND A FEW  TORNADOES OVER PARTS OF 

THE UPPER MIDWEST INTO THE OHIO VALLEY THIS  AFTERNOON 

AND TONIGHT. 

THE AREAS MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE THIS ACTIVITY INCLUDE 

• EASTERN IOWA 

• NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS 

• MUCH OF INDIANA 

• WESTERN OHIO

Digital cinemas offer more via satellite

Digital cinemas offer more via satellite

11-06-2013 11:39 PM CEST

As cinema owners worldwide begin to embrace new digital technologies via satellite, audiences are being given more ways to enjoy an evening at the movies.

Yagi (Northwest Pacific)

Yagi (Northwest Pacific)

06/11/2013 12:00 AM EDT

Tropical Storm Yagi is not expected to make landfall in Japan, but NASA satellite imagery showed that the storm was just south of the big island.