{"id":367,"date":"2007-02-24T23:23:16","date_gmt":"2007-02-24T23:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/2007\/02\/24\/dust-storm-and-wildfires-in-texas\/"},"modified":"2007-02-28T12:37:18","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T12:37:18","slug":"dust-storm-and-wildfires-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/367","title":{"rendered":"Dust storm and wildfires in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Strong winds gusting to 60-70 mph in the wake of a cold frontal passage on 24 February 2007<\/span><\/a> caused widespread blowing dust and wildfire activity across much of the Texas panhandle region. GOES-12 visible channel imagery (above; Java animation<\/a>)<\/span> showed the development of a large cloud of blowing dust, as well as several smaller smoke plumes to the south of the blowing dust feature. The dust cloud exhibited a pronounced reddish-brown hue on MODIS true color imagery<\/span><\/a>, due to the composition of the soil in the source region near the Texas \/ New Mexico border. This airborne dust reduced surface visibilities to less than one mile at several locations, causing traffic accidents and even producing brown-colored snow and rain \u00c2\u00a0 (NWS Lubbock TX summary<\/span><\/a>).<\/p>\n

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\nGOES-12 3.9\u00c2\u00b5m InfraRed (IR) imagery (below; Java animation<\/a>)<\/span> revealed several “hot spots” (black enhancement)<\/span> due to wildfire activity<\/a><\/strong> that also flared up due to the strong winds. Note that one fire (near Killeen TX, station identifier KGRK<\/span><\/a>, bottom center of the image) became hot enough to saturate the GOES-12 3.9\u00c2\u00b5m detectors at 19:32 UTC, causing the brightness temperature to “wrap around” and actually show up as a “cold” pixel (white enhancement).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Strong winds gusting to 60-70 mph in the wake of a cold frontal passage on 24 February 2007 caused widespread blowing dust and wildfire activity across much of the Texas panhandle region. GOES-12 visible channel imagery (above; Java animation) showed the development of a large cloud of blowing dust, as well as several smaller smoke […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,19,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-quality","category-fire-detection","category-goes-12","category-modis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","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=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}