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<\/a>GOES-16 Split Cloud Top Phase (11.2-8.4 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Dust RGB images (with and without plots of surface reports) [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> Split Cloud Top Phase<\/strong><\/a> (11.2-8.4 \u00b5m) and Dust<\/strong><\/a> Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images (above)<\/strong><\/em> displayed signatures of blowing dust plumes — medium shades of blue in the 11.2-8.4 \u00b5m product, and brighter shades of magenta to pink in the Dust RGB — caused by strong winds in the wake of cold fronts moving southward and eastward\u00a0 across the central and southern Plains on 09 June 2020.<\/p>\n A closer view of GOES-16 Dust RGB images over the Texas Panhandle (below)<\/strong> <\/em>showed a localized pocket of dense blowing dust moving southeastward — it temporarily reduced visibility to 2 miles at Borger KBGD, moved across Interstate 40 east of Amarillo KAMA, and then reduced visibility to 3 miles at Childress KCDS.<\/p>\n GOES-16 Dust RGB images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>On a larger scale, a longer animation of GOES-16 Dust RGB images created using Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a> (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the early stages of the initial southward surge of blowing dust over eastern Colorado, where wind gusts to 102 mph<\/strong><\/a> were recorded.<\/p>\n GOES-16 Dust RGB images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>The corresponding daytime GOES-16 True Color RGB mages (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the tan-colored plumes of blowing dust, in addition to a few smoke plumes (shades of white)<\/em> from wildfires in Arizona, New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>