{"id":9038,"date":"2011-10-18T18:33:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T18:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=9038"},"modified":"2011-10-20T19:35:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T19:35:58","slug":"blowing-dust-event-in-texas-and-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/9038","title":{"rendered":"Blowing dust event in Texas and New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/10\/111017_g11_g15_g13_vis_swir_tx_dust_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"GOES-11, GOES-15, and GOES-13 visible channel images (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/10\/111017_G11_G15_G13_VIS_SWIR_TX_DUST_06.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-11, GOES-15, and GOES-13 visible channel images (click image to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-11, GOES-15, and GOES-13 visible channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A major blowing dust event occurred in the wake of a strong cold frontal boundary that moved rapidly southward across western Texas and eastern New Mexico late in the day on <a title=\"17 October 2011 daily weather map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20111017.html\"><strong>17 October 2011<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; the blowing dust reduced surface visibilities to near zero in some locations as winds gusted as high as 75 mph (see <a title=\"NWS Lubbock story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.srh.noaa.gov\/lub\/?n=events-2011-20111017-haboob\"><strong>NWS Lubbock story<\/strong><\/a>). McIDAS images of GOES-11 <em>(GOES-West), <\/em>GOES-15, and GOES-13 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> visible channel data during the daylight hours and shortwave IR data after sunset <em><strong>(above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed the southward propagation of the well-defined arc of blowing dust (or &#8220;haboob&#8221;), along with the surge of cooler air behind the cold front. A few wildfire &#8220;hot spots&#8221; <em>(darker black pixels)<\/em> were also evident on the GOES shortwave IR images, a result of fires started by downed power lines.<\/p>\n<p>Much of that region had been experiencing long-term <a title=\"US Drought Monitor\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/10\/111018_drought_monitor_southern_us.jpg\"><strong>extreme to exceptional drought conditions<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; and an AWIPS image of the MODIS Normalized Difference Vegetation Index <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed very low NDVI values across much of western Texas the day before the dust storm.<\/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\/MODIS_NDVI_20111016_2013.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"MODIS Normalized Difference Vegetation Index\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/10\/MODIS_NDVI_20111016_2013.png\" alt=\"MODIS Normalized Difference Vegetation Index\" width=\"480\" height=\"439\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS Normalized Difference Vegetation Index<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major blowing dust event occurred in the wake of a strong cold frontal boundary that moved rapidly southward across western Texas and eastern New Mexico late in the day on 17 October 2011 &#8212; the blowing dust reduced surface visibilities to near zero in some locations as winds gusted as high as 75 mph [&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":[7,6,18,11,43,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-quality","category-fire-detection","category-goes-11","category-goes-13","category-goes-15","category-modis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038","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=9038"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9040,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038\/revisions\/9040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}