{"id":69792,"date":"2026-04-09T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=69792"},"modified":"2026-04-10T03:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:06:21","slug":"lightning-ignited-wildfires-in-the-texas-panhandle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/69792","title":{"rendered":"Lightning-ignited wildfires in the Texas Panhandle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 3006px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/04\/260409_goes19_visible_glmFlashPoints_fireMask_TX_lightning_ignited_fires.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/04\/260409_2324z_g19_glm_fireMask_TX.png\" width=\"2996\" height=\"1676\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">1-minute GOES-19 Visible images with an overlay of GLM Flash Points and the Fire Mask derived product, from 2048 UTC on 09 April to 0007 UTC on 10 April [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em>\u00a0Visible images that included overlays of GLM Flash Points and the Fire Mask derived product <strong><em>(above)<\/em><\/strong> showed a cluster of thunderstorms that was moving eastward across the Texas Panhandle late in the day on 09 April 2026. Frequent lightning activity associated with this convection ignited 2 wildfires in Oldham County, northwest of Amarillo (KAMA) &#8212; and each of these fires produced small smoke plumes that drifted northward from their respective thermal signatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East)\u00a0Visible images that included overlays of GLM Flash Points and the Fire Mask derived product (above) showed a cluster of thunderstorms that was moving eastward across the Texas Panhandle late in the day on 09 April 2026. Frequent lightning activity associated with this convection ignited 2 wildfires in Oldham County, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":69802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,76,159,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-glm","category-goes-19","category-lightning"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69792","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=69792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69801,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69792\/revisions\/69801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}