{"id":8943,"date":"2011-10-03T19:29:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T19:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=8943"},"modified":"2011-10-05T19:10:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T19:10:51","slug":"chemical-plant-fire-near-dallas-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/8943","title":{"rendered":"Chemical plant fire near Dallas, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/10\/111003_g11_g15_g13_vis_tx_fire_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GOES-11, GOES-15, and GOES-13 visible channel images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/10\/111003_g11_g15_g13_vis_tx_fire_anim.gif\" alt=\"GOES-11, GOES-15, and GOES-13 visible channel images\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-11, GOES-15, and GOES-13 visible channel images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A McIDAS image comparison of GOES-11 <em>(GOES-West)<\/em> 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel, GOES-15 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel, and GOES-13 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the dark smoke plume from a fire burning at a chemical plant in Waxahachie, Texas <em>(about 30 miles south of Dallas)<\/em> on <a title=\"03 October 2011 daily weather map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20111003.html\"><strong>03 October 2011<\/strong><\/a>. (Note: GOES-15 is scheduled to replace GOES-11 as the operational GOES-West satellite in December 2011).<\/p>\n<p>A similar comparison of the GOES-11, GOES-15, and GOES-13 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR channels <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that no obvious fire &#8220;hot spot&#8221; was evident before the appearance of the dark smoke plume &#8212; the brighter yellow colors highlight pixels which have an IR brightness temperature hotter than 45\u00c2\u00ba C. This 45\u00c2\u00ba C threshold was exceeded at 16:30 UTC on the GOES-15 and GOES-13 images, and at 16:45 on the GOES-11 images; on the visible channel imagery, the dark smoke plume was seen 30 minutes earlier at 16:00 UTC on all 3 satellites.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/10\/111003_g11_g15_g13_ir2_tx_fire_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GOES-11, GOES-15, and GOES-13 shortwave IR images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/10\/111003_g11_g15_g13_ir2_tx_fire_anim.gif\" alt=\"GOES-11, GOES-15, and GOES-13 shortwave IR images\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-11, GOES-15, and GOES-13 shortwave IR images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A 17:32 UTC Terra MODIS <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lance.nasa.gov\/imagery\/rapid-response\/frequently-asked-questions\/#faq04\">Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB)<\/a><\/strong> true color image from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ge.ssec.wisc.edu\/modis-today\/index.php?satellite=t1&amp;product=true_color&amp;date=2011_10_03_276&amp;overlay_sector=false&amp;overlay_state=true&amp;overlay_coastline=true&amp;sector=USA6&amp;resolution=1000m\">SSEC MODIS Today<\/a><\/strong> site  <em><strong>(below, viewed using Google Earth)<\/strong><\/em> confirmed the very dark nature of the smoke plume from this particular fire, which was causing some evacuations (<a title=\"news media story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/44759380\/ns\/us_news-life\/#.TooIeXHN5P1\"><strong>news media story<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/10\/111003_modis_truecolor_tx_fire_google.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"MODIS true color RGB image (viewed using Google Earth)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/10\/111003_modis_truecolor_tx_fire_google.jpg\" alt=\"MODIS true color RGB image (viewed using Google Earth)\" width=\"480\" height=\"435\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS true color RGB image (viewed using Google Earth)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A McIDAS image comparison of GOES-11 (GOES-West) 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel, GOES-15 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel, and GOES-13 (GOES-East) 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data (above) showed the dark smoke plume from a fire burning at a chemical plant in Waxahachie, Texas (about 30 miles south of Dallas) on 03 October 2011. (Note: GOES-15 is scheduled [&hellip;]<\/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":[6,18,11,43,32,12,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-goes-11","category-goes-13","category-goes-15","category-google-earth","category-modis","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943","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=8943"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8967,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943\/revisions\/8967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}