About the GOES-16 satellite - The GOES-16 ... causing large supercell storms for much of the Great Plains states which caused more than multiple tornadoes, according to NOAA.

Several “satellite” tornadoes were on the ground ... It is common for large tornadoes in the Great Plains to have several smaller whirls called suction vortices or sub vortices within them.

Satellite imagery from the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) revealed a swath of snow stretching from the Great Plains to the East Coast on Sunday, January 27. “Ice coverage ...