![\"GOES-16](\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/191119_goes16_fireRGB_shortwaveInfrared_fireTemperature_firePower_fireArea_Gulf_Coast_anim.gif\")
<\/a>GOES-16 Fire Temperature RGB, Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m),<\/em> Fire Temperature, Fire Power and Fire Area products [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>A sequence of GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> Fire Temperature RGB<\/strong><\/a>, Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>), Fire Temperature, Fire Power and Fire Area products (above)<\/strong><\/em> displayed signatures of widespread fires — a combination of prescribed burns and agricultural fires — across parts of the Deep South on 19 November 2019<\/strong><\/a>. Fire Temperature, Fire Power and Fire Area products are components of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm (SHyMet<\/strong><\/a> | ATBD<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images, with and without plots of surface observations, are shown below. While most of the fires were too small\/brief to produce large smoke plumes, a prominent plume was associated with one of the hottest and most long-lived fires — which was likely a prescribed burn — in the Chickasawhay State Wildlife Management Area (located east of Hattiesburg\/Laurel Airport KPIB) in southeastern Mississippi.<\/p>\n GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with and without plots of surface observations [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>There were no surface stations downwind of that Mississippi fire; however, one small smoke plume drifted over Lafayette in southern Louisiana (KLFT) near the end of the day, briefly reducing the visibility to 6 miles at 22 UTC (below).<\/p>\n Time series of surface observation data from Lafayette Regional Airport in Louisiana [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>For the hot fire in southeastern Mississippi, GOES-16 Shortwave Infrared, Fire Temperature, Fire Power and Fire Area values are shown for the same hot fire pixel at 1716, 1731 and 1806 UTC (below)<\/strong><\/em>. Note that the individual parameter trends can be different for a given fire pixel — for example, even though the hottest 3.9 \u00b5m brightness temperature value was 58.8\u00baC at 1806 UTC, the peak Fire Temperature value was 1373.1 K at 1731 UTC. However, the time of the maximum Fire Power value of 213.6 MW coincided with the time of the hottest 3.9 \u00b5m brightness temperature value (1806 UTC).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>