Category Archives: GOES-13

West Fork fire complex: pyrocumulonimbus penetration of existing cumulonimbus clouds

McIDAS images of 1-km resolution GOES-15 (GOES-West) and GOES-13 (GOES-East) 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed a pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud from the West Fork fire complex rapidly penetrating the tops of surrounding orographically-induced cumulonimbus (Cb) clouds, beginning around 20:10 UTC or 2:10 PM local time on 28 June 2013. […]

PyroCB from Silver, New Mexico Fire June 27, 2013

The Silver Fire continued to burn on June 27, 2013 in Southwestern New Mexico.  GOES-13  0.63 micrometer visible imagery (above, left panel; click image to play) show a smoke plume erupting from the desert during the late morning and early afternoon hours of the 27th.  After the smoke plume is evident, a large pyrocumulonimbus forms […]

June 26, 2013 West Fork, Colorado Fire and PyroCB

The West Fork Fire continued to burn on June 26, 2013 in South Central Colorado.  This fire had its origins three weeks earlier on June 5, 2013.  GOES-13  0.63 micrometer visible imagery (above, left panel; click image to play) show a smoke plume erupting from the mountain fire during the early afternoon hours of the […]

Large fire in southeastern Quebec

A large fire was burning in southeastern Quebec (centered near 51.6 N latitude, 66.2 W longitude) on 22 June 2012. A comparison of 1-km resolution GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel and 4-km resolution 3.9 µm shortwave IR channel images (above; click image to play animation) showed the development of a very large smoke plume, as […]

West Fork and East Park fires in southern Colorado

Two large fires burning in southern Colorado began to produce pyrocumulonimbus clouds and very large smoke plumes, as seen on GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel (top panels) and 3.9 µm shortwave IR images (bottom panels)  on 19 June (above; click image to play animation) and on 20 June 2012 (below; click image to play animation). […]

Silver Fire in southwestern New Mexico

The Silver Fire continued to burn in southwestern New Mexico on 13 June 2013. GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel images (above; click image to play animation) showed the development of a well-defined pyrocumulonimbus cloud, which then began to merge with orographic cumulonimbus clouds which were building to the west of the fire. An overpass of […]