{"id":45451,"date":"2022-03-27T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=45451"},"modified":"2022-12-09T17:23:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T17:23:13","slug":"crittenburg-complex-wildfire-in-north-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/45451","title":{"rendered":"Crittenburg Complex of wildfires in North Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m, top left), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m, top right), Fire Power (bottom left) and Fire Temperature (bottom right) [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m), Fire Power and Fire Temperature (above)<\/strong><\/em> displayed the smoke plumes and thermal signature of the Crittenburg Complex<\/strong><\/a> of wildfires that developed south-southwest of Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas on 27 March 2022<\/strong><\/a>. Thermal signatures became evident around 1600 UTC or 11:00 am CDT; within 3 hours this fire was burning very hot, with 3.9 \u00b5m Shortwave Infrared brightness temperatures reaching 138.71\u00baC — the saturation temperature of <\/span>ABI<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a> Band 7 detectors — as early as 1900 UTC. The Fire Temperature and Fire Power derived products are components of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm FDCA<\/strong><\/a>.
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GOES-16 True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a> (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed that the smoke plume eventually drifted north-northeastward over parts of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n

A toggle between Suomi-NPP VIIRS True Color RGB and False Color RGB images at 2032 UTC is shown below. The images were downloaded and processed via the Direct Broadcast ground station at SSEC\/CIMSS, and are available for AWIPS via LDM subscription.<\/p>\n

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Suomi-NPP VIIRS True Color RGB and False Color RGB images at 2032 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n

About 12 hours later, nighttime signatures of the Crittenburg Complex were still apparent in Suomi-NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m<\/span>) and Shortwave Infrared (3.74 \u00b5m<\/span>) images (below)<\/strong><\/em>. The lights just north of the fire (seen in Day\/Night Band imagery) were likely due to firefighting assets in that area, working to slow the northward spread of the fire.<\/p>\n

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Suomi-NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) and Shortwave Infrared (3.74 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n

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1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m), Fire Power and Fire Temperature (above) displayed the smoke plumes and thermal signature of the Crittenburg Complex of wildfires that developed south-southwest of Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas on 27 March 2022. Thermal signatures became evident around 1600 UTC or 11:00 am CDT; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":45457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,132,74,45,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-geo2grid","category-goes-16","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45451","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=45451"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49103,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45451\/revisions\/49103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}