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Wildfire Alert Report
| Date: | 2025-08-18 |
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| Time: | 19:21:17 |
| Production Date and Time: | 2025-08-18 19:26:09 UTC |
| Primary Instrument: | GOES-18 ABI |
| Wmo Spacecraft Id: | 665 |
| Location/orbit: | GEO |
| L1 File: | OR_ABI-L1b-RadC-M6C14_G18_s20252301921170_e20252301923543_c20252301924035.nc |
| L1 File(s) - Temporal | OR_ABI-L1b-RadC-M6C14_G18_s20252301916170_e20252301918543_c20252301919035.nc |
| Number Of Thermal Anomaly Alerts: | 1 |
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Possible Wildfire
| Basic Information | |
|---|---|
| State/Province(s) | UT |
| Country/Countries | United States |
| County/Locality(s) | Summit County, UT |
| NWS WFO | Salt Lake City UT |
| Identification Method | Enhanced Contextual (Cloud) |
| Mean Object Date/Time | 2025-08-18 19:21:54UTC |
| Radiative Center (Lat, Lon): | 40.806389°, -110.732498° |
| Nearby Counties (meeting alert criteria): |
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| Total Radiative Power Anomaly | n/a |
| Total Radiative Power | 71.96 MW |
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| Additional Information | |
| Alert Status | New Feature |
| Type of Event | Nominal Risk, Known Incident: Beulah (HIGH, tdiff=0.37787 days, Perimeter) |
| Event Priority Ranking | 4 |
| Maximum Observed BT (3.9 um) | 314.78 K |
| Observed - Background BT (3.9 um) | 8.07 K |
| BT Anomaly (3.9 um) | 4.70 K |
| Maximum Observed - Clear RTM BT (3.9 um) | 14.23 K |
| Maximum Observed BTD (3.9-10/11/12 um) | 15.46 K |
| Observed - Background BTD (3.9-10/11/12 um) | 6.73 K |
| BTD Anomaly (3.9-10/11/12 um) | 4.58 K |
| Similar Pixel Count | 0 |
| BT Time Tendency (3.9 um) | 5.10 K |
| Image Interval | 5.00 minutes |
| Fraction of Surrounding LWIR Pixels that are Colder | 0.99 |
| Fraction of Surrounding Red Channel Pixels that are Brighter | 1.00 |
| Maximum Radiative Power | 37.79 MW |
| Maximum Radiative Power Uncertainty | 0.00 MW |
| Total Radiative Power Uncertainty | 0.00 MW |
| Mean Viewing Angle | 54.60° |
| Mean Solar Zenith Angle | 27.30° |
| Mean Glint Angle | 76.90° |
| Water Fraction | 0.00 |
| Total Pixel Area | 13.80 km2 |
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