{"id":55519,"date":"2023-11-08T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=55519"},"modified":"2023-11-11T17:46:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T17:46:35","slug":"chemical-plant-fire-in-texas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/55519","title":{"rendered":"30-second imagery of a chemical plant fire in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 1725px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/11\/231108_goes16_dayLandCloudFireRGB_firePower_fireMask_TX_chemical_plant_explosion_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/11\/tx_rgb-20231108_163225.png\" width=\"1715\" height=\"830\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Day Land Cloud Fire RGB images with an overlay of Fire Power and Fire Mask derived products, from 1400 UTC to 1900 UTC [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/11\/231108_goes16_dayLandCloudFireRGB_firePower_fireMask_TX_chemical_plant_explosion_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Overlapping 1-minute\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov\/status\/satellite\/\"><strong>Mesoscale Domain Sectors<\/strong><\/a> provided 30-second interval GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/QuickGuide_GOESR_DayLandCloudFireRGB_final-1.pdf\"><strong>Day Land Cloud Fire RGB<\/strong><\/a> images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> that included an overlay of Fire Power and Fire Mask derived products (2 components of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm <a href=\"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/training\/visit\/training_sessions\/goes_r_fire_surface_properties\/video\/presentation_html5.html?lms=1\"><strong>FDCA<\/strong><\/a>) &#8212; which showed the thermal signature and dark black smoke plume associated with a fire at the Sound Resource Solutions chemical plant in Shepherd, Texas on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20231108.html\"><strong>08 November 2023<\/strong><\/a>. The smoke plume was thick enough to significantly reduce incoming solar radiation reaching the surface, which inhibited the subsequent development of boundary layer cumulus clouds (resulting in a pronounced gap in the cumulus field downwind of the fire and smoke plume source after about 1700 UTC).<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 1926px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/11\/231108_1426utc_goes16_dayLandCloudFireRGB_firePower_fireMask_TX.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/11\/231108_1426utc_goes16_dayLandCloudFireRGB_firePower_fireMask_TX.png\" width=\"1916\" height=\"968\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Day Land Cloud Fire RGB image at 1426 UTC, with a cursor sample of Fire Mask and Fire Power derived product values [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>The FDCA first identified a Processed Fire at 1420 UTC &#8212; and the peak Fire Power value of 171.65 MW occurred 6 minutes later <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em>. The maximum Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) brightness temperature of 55.54\u00baC also occurred at 1426 UTC <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1926px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/11\/231108_1426utc_goes16_shortwaveInfrared_TX.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/11\/231108_1426utc_goes16_shortwaveInfrared_TX.png\" width=\"1916\" height=\"968\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) image at 1426 UTC, with a cursor sample of the 3.9 \u00b5m infrared brightness temperature [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overlapping 1-minute\u00a0Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided 30-second interval GOES-16 (GOES-East) Day Land Cloud Fire RGB images (above) that included an overlay of Fire Power and Fire Mask derived products (2 components of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm FDCA) &#8212; which showed the thermal signature and dark black smoke plume associated with a fire at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":55524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,74,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55519","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\/55519","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=55519"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55551,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55519\/revisions\/55551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}