{"id":28901,"date":"2018-07-10T23:59:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T23:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=28901"},"modified":"2018-07-12T15:37:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T15:37:13","slug":"natural-gas-explosion-and-fire-in-sun-prairie-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/28901","title":{"rendered":"Natural gas explosion and fire in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/180710_goes16_ShortwaveInfrared_FireTemperature_Sun_Prairie_WI_fire_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/screenCapture-70.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) image and Fire Temperature derived product [click to play animation]\" width=\"640\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Shortwave Infrared<em> (3.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> imagery and Fire Temperature derived product [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/180710_goes16_ShortwaveInfrared_FireTemperature_Sun_Prairie_WI_fire_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>An explosion triggered by a damaged natural gas main in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin occurred around 0005 UTC \/ 7:05 pm CDT on 10 July 2018 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.channel3000.com\/news\/1-firefighter-killed-several-others-including-police-officer-civilians-injured-in-explosion\/766465767\"><strong>media story<\/strong><\/a>). Layered cloudiness was passing over the region at the time of the initial explosion, but once the clouds cleared a thermal signature<em> (blue pixel)<\/em> was seen from 0247 to 0342 UTC on the GOES-16<em> (GOES-East)<\/em> Fire Temperature product<em><strong> (above)<\/strong><\/em> as the fire burned into the nighttime hours. The maximum Fire Temperature value was 537.6 K at 0332 UTC \/ 10:32 pm CDT.<\/p>\n<p>A thermal anomaly or &#8220;hot spot&#8221;<em> (dark black pixels)<\/em> was apparent on 1-km resolution Terra MODIS Shortwave Infrared (3.74 \u00b5m) imagery <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> at 0338 UTC \/ 10:38 pm CDT. The maximum infrared brightness temperature on the MODIS image was 335.4 K.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 649px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/MODIS_4_MICRON_20180711_0338.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/MODIS_4_MICRON_20180711_0338.png\" alt=\"Terra MODIS Shortwave Infrared (3.74 \u00b5m) image, with plots of surface observations in yellow [click to enlarge]\" width=\"639\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terra MODIS Shortwave Infrared <em>(3.74 \u00b5m)<\/em> image, with plots of surface observations in yellow [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A very subtle thermal anomaly <em>(darker gray pixels)<\/em> was still evident after 07 UTC \/ 2 am CDT on Suomi NPP and Aqua MODIS Shortwave Infrared images <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/180710_11_modis_viirs_shortwaveIR_Sun_Prairie_WI_fire_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/180710_11_modis_viirs_shortwaveIR_Sun_Prairie_WI_fire_anim.gif\" alt=\"Terra MODIS, Suomi NPP VIIRS and Aqua MODIS Shortwave Infrared images [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terra MODIS, Suomi NPP VIIRS and Aqua MODIS Shortwave Infrared images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Check out this animation from our radar showing the lake breeze interaction with the Sun Prairie smoke plume late this evening. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/swiwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#swiwx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/wiwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#wiwx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/046Yv8NZ6K\">pic.twitter.com\/046Yv8NZ6K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NWS Milwaukee (@NWSMKX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSMKX\/status\/1016907160729636869?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 11, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion triggered by a damaged natural gas main in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin occurred around 0005 UTC \/ 7:05 pm CDT on 10 July 2018 (media story). Layered cloudiness was passing over the region at the time of the initial explosion, but once the clouds cleared a thermal signature (blue pixel) was seen from 0247 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":28904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,6,74,12,49,71,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aqua","category-fire-detection","category-goes-16","category-modis","category-suomi_npp","category-terra","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28901"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28919,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28901\/revisions\/28919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}