{"id":648,"date":"2008-05-02T23:58:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T23:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/648"},"modified":"2010-05-20T20:35:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T20:35:58","slug":"the-huckabee-fire-in-southwest-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/648","title":{"rendered":"The “Huckabee Fire” in southwest Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOES-12<\/a><\/p>\n

GOES-12 RGB composite images (above<\/strong>, using the visible and 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR channels)<\/em> revealed a cluster of “hot spots” (red-enhanced pixels) <\/em>and a large smoke plume drifting east\/northeastward from a large grass fire<\/a> located about 30 miles southeast of Fort Stockton, Texas on 01 May 2008<\/strong><\/a>. This fire — known as the Huckabee Fire<\/strong><\/a> — started on 30 April (due to a downed power line),<\/em> and eventually ended up burning over 96,000 acres. This large and very hot fire saturated the 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR detectors on GOES-12, with the imagery indicating a maximum IR brightness temperature of 337.4\u00c2\u00ba K<\/strong> (64.3\u00c2\u00ba C or 147.7\u00c2\u00ba F)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

AWIPS images of the GOES-12 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR channel (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed that the Huckabee fire continued to burn into the morning hours of 02 May, as a cold front<\/strong><\/a> moved southward across the region — the cooler air behind the cold frontal boundary was evident as lighter<\/em> shades of gray surging southward, while warmer, more humid air appeared as darker<\/em> shades of gray moving slowly northward across eastern Texas into Oklahoma (in advance of the approaching cold front)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-12<\/a><\/p>\n

An AWIPS 4-panel comparison of MODIS and GOES-12 “shortwave IR” and “IR window” channel data (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the cluster of hot pixels around 09 UTC (4 am local time) <\/em>on 02 May. This large fire was so hot that a “hot spot” was even apparent on the IR window channel images — surprisingly, the brightness temperature of the hot spot on the GOES-12 IR window image was higher (as indicated by the single yellow-enhanced pixel in the lower right panel)<\/em> than on the corresponding MODIS IR window image (the cluster of black pixels in the upper right panel)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"MODIS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GOES-12 RGB composite images (above, using the visible and 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR channels) revealed a cluster of “hot spots” (red-enhanced pixels) and a large smoke plume drifting east\/northeastward from a large grass fire located about 30 miles southeast of Fort Stockton, Texas on 01 May 2008. This fire — known as the Huckabee Fire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,19,12,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-goes-12","category-modis","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","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=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5739,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/5739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}