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<\/a>GOES-16 Fire Temperature RGB images [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> Fire Tempera ture RGB<\/strong><\/a> images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the rapid north-northwestward spread of a wind-driven grassland fire across Sioux County in far southern North Dakota during the early afternoon hours on 21 August 2022<\/strong><\/a>. South-southeasterly winds were gusting to 17-18 knots (19-21 mph) at surrounding METAR sites during that time period.<\/p>\n The GOES-16 Fire Temperature RGB image at 1921 UTC (below)<\/strong><\/em> includes cursor readouts of the individual RGB components, along with the corresponding Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm<\/strong><\/a> (FDCA) products. This was the time of the peak 3.9 \u00b5m infrared brightness temperature of 86.95\u00baC — the FDCA Fire Temperature value was 758.57 K, while the Fire Power was 912.46 MW.<\/p>\n GOES-16 Fire Temperature RGB image at 1921 UTC, with cursor readouts of RGB components and Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm products [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>In Suomi-NPP VIIRS True Color and False Color RGB images valid at 1938 UTC viewed using RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> (below)<\/strong><\/em>, the elongated dark vegetation burn scar was evident, along with a smoke plume fanning out to the north and a lone pyrocumulus cloud just northeast of the active fire (brighter shades of pink in the False Color image).<\/p>\n<\/a>