{"id":40472,"date":"2021-03-29T23:59:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T23:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=40472"},"modified":"2021-04-02T03:26:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T03:26:55","slug":"wildfires-in-south-dakota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/40472","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires in South Dakota"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GOES-16 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) <\/em>images, with hourly surface wind barbs (cyan)<\/em> and gusts (in knots, red);<\/em> Interstate 90 is plotted in red [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>1-minute\u00a0Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a> GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (above)<\/strong> <\/em>displayed the thermal anomalies (clusters of hot pixels)<\/em> associated with 2 wildfires burning in western South Dakota on 29 March 2021<\/strong><\/a>. One fire began just west of Rapid City around 1530 UTC — which forced some evacuations. A second fire began just north of Interstate 90 around 1730 UTC — which forced the closure of Interstate 90 between Kadoka and Murdo as strong northwesterly winds in the wake of a cold frontal passage (surface analyses<\/strong><\/a>) caused a rapid fire run to the southeast. The southern surge of cold air (lighter shades of gray)<\/em> behind the cold front could also be seen in the Shortwave Infrared images; both fires began shortly before the arrival of the cold front.<\/p>\n

Taking a closer look at the fire just west of Rapid City, a 4-panel comparison of GOES-16 Fire Temperature RGB<\/strong><\/a>, Shortwave Infrared, Fire Power and Fire Temperature Characterization products<\/strong><\/a> (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed that this was not a particularly large or hot fire, whose signature was sometimes obscured by clouds moving overhead.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 Fire Temperature RGB (top left),<\/em> Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m, top right),<\/em> Fire Power (bottom left)<\/em> and Fire Temperature (bottom right)<\/em> [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n

===== 30 March Update =====<\/strong><\/p>\n

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GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m),<\/em> Near-Infrared “Vegetation” (0.86 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Day Land Cloud Fire RGB images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>On the following day, GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>), Near-Infrared “Vegetation” (0.86 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and Day Land Cloud Fire RGB<\/strong><\/a> images (above)<\/strong> <\/em>revealed the northwest-to-southeast oriented burn scar (darker gray pixels)<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1-minute\u00a0Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images (above) displayed the thermal anomalies (clusters of hot pixels) associated with 2 wildfires burning in western South Dakota on 29 March 2021. One fire began just west of Rapid City around 1530 UTC — which forced some evacuations. A second fire began just north of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":40474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,74,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-goes-16","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40472","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=40472"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40477,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40472\/revisions\/40477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}