{"id":8378,"date":"2011-06-27T22:28:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T22:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=8378"},"modified":"2011-06-28T04:31:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T04:31:52","slug":"record-heat-in-parts-of-texas-oklahoma-and-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/8378","title":{"rendered":"Record heat in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas; large fire near Los Alamos, New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"MODIS<\/a>

MODIS Land Surface Temperature product<\/p><\/div>\n

Record heat was experienced across parts of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandle regions and southwestern Kansas on 26 June 2011<\/a><\/strong> — all-time record high temperatures in Texas included 117\u00c2\u00baF<\/strong> at Childress (record tied), 113\u00c2\u00baF<\/strong> at Borger, 111\u00c2\u00baF<\/strong> at Amarillo, and 110\u00c2\u00baF<\/strong> at Dalhart; in Oklahoma, 113\u00c2\u00baF<\/strong> at Gage; and in Kansas 110\u00c2\u00baF<\/strong> at Dodge City. An AWIPS image of the MODIS Land Surface Temperature (LST) product in the late morning at 16:52 UTC or 11:52 am local time (above)<\/em><\/strong> showed a large area exhibiting LST values of 125-130\u00c2\u00baF (darker red color enhancement)<\/em> at that time (although shelter air temperatures 5 feet above the surface were only in the 102\u00c2\u00baF to 104\u00c2\u00baF range).<\/p>\n

GOES-13 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR images (below; click image to play animation)<\/em><\/strong> showed how after sunset the areas with drier air (lower dew points)<\/em> tended to cool off faster than adjacent areas with more moisture in the air (higher dew points)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR images + METAR surface reports (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

Farther to the west, a large wildfire was burning near Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. A sequence of daytime GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images followed by night-time GOES-13 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR images (below; click image to play animation)<\/em><\/strong> revealed a very large smoke plume spreading northeastward during the day on 26 June, along with a very large fire “hot spot” (black to yellow pixels)<\/em> on the shortwave IR images. The large smoke plume was still apparent on the first few visible images on the next morning (27 June).<\/p>\n

\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible images + GOES-13 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

A comparison of 1-km resolution POES AVHRR 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 3.74 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR channel images (below) showed a better view of the fire hot spot and associated smoke plume at 01:32 UTC.<\/p>\n

\"POES<\/a>

POES AVHRR 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 3.74 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR channel images<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Record heat was experienced across parts of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandle regions and southwestern Kansas on 26 June 2011 — all-time record high temperatures in Texas included 117\u00c2\u00baF at Childress (record tied), 113\u00c2\u00baF at Borger, 111\u00c2\u00baF at Amarillo, and 110\u00c2\u00baF at Dalhart; in Oklahoma, 113\u00c2\u00baF at Gage; and in Kansas 110\u00c2\u00baF at Dodge City. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,6,10,11,12,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avhrr","category-fire-detection","category-general-interpretation","category-goes-13","category-modis","category-poes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8378","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=8378"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8384,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8378\/revisions\/8384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}