So what happened? 8 April 2019



While you may have found other interesting things, here's what the case designer saw:
There was convection in the southeast as a large storm was wrapping up. Hard to tell from the provided data if it included severe weather.
Skies were mostly clear in Kansas, but the fires there, while relatively low activity, were very numerous and eventually built up a lot of smoke. You could see that beginning in band 1 in particular. In Southwest Missouri that night the skies were relatively cloud free to start but it would have been smokey near the ground - the weak fires couldn't inject the smoke too high so much would have remained in the boundary layer and with nothing to scour it out, it would move into Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, potentially leading to respiratory issues.

  • Loops of ABI bands, true color product, and fires product from 20-24 UTC (fires product runs from 10 to 24 UTC): (links to mp4s)
    Band 1
    Band 2
    Band 3
    Band 4
    Band 5
    Band 6
    Band 7
    Band 8
    Band 9
    Band 10
    Band 11
    Band 12
    Band 13
    Band 14
    Band 15
    Band 16


    True color loop


    Fires loop, legend below

    CIMSS Satellite Blog entry on this case


    Original loops:



  • Loops of ABI bands, true color product, and fires product: (links to mp4s)
    Band 1
    Band 2
    Band 3
    Band 4
    Band 5
    Band 6
    Band 7
    Band 8
    Band 9
    Band 10
    Band 11
    Band 12
    Band 13
    Band 14
    Band 15
    Band 16


    True color loop


    Fires loop, legend below