Conversation

Animation from Noon to 9 PM Central showing progression of the dust plume (in yellow) from #GOES16 satellite using the DEBRA product. More on that here: rammb.cira.colostate.edu/training/visit Also layered on the fire temperature product, so bursts of red you see are wildfires that developed.

0:04

3K views

Alex Lamers

@AlexJLamers

I grabbed the animation from the essential SLIDER page, an excellent resource for satellite imagery. rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu

4:08 AM · Dec 16, 2021

Replying to

Here's a zoomed in animation of the dust progression (in yellow) from the #GOES16 DEBRA product, and the fire temperature product overlaid, from Noon to 6:30 PM Central. Should be easier to see the fires flare up in this one.

0:04

643 views

Alex Lamers

@AlexJLamers

Dec 16, 2021

Based on RTMA analysis shown here, and some observations, it looks like there was a corridor of enhanced wind in north-central Kansas near where the tip of the cloud comma head passed. That was also where numerous fires erupted.

Quote Tweet

Greg Carbin

@GCarbin

Dec 16, 2021

Last 12 hours of hourly estimated max wind gusts from @NWS Real-time Mesoscale Analysis.