Today our system shows high probabilities of dust aerosols present in the states of Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma. It seems like a strong winds originated from the Dakotas to Oklahoma and possibly cold fronts provoked a dust storm of a large size. The area monitored by NASA-Terra-MODIS suggests that the dust storm size could cover the state of Oklahoma almost in its entirety.
A
report from Tulsa, OK, says that the visibility in one of their highways was of about 10 feet, near black out.
"A massive dust storm swirling reddish-brown clouds over northern Oklahoma triggered a multi-vehicle accident along a major interstate Thursday, forcing police to shut down the heavily traveled roadway amid near blackout conditions. (Oct. 18)" - Associated Press. Here is a video from a helicopter (I guess).
Another official source says the following:
"Strong winds in the Plains today have caused travel disruptions from the Dakotas to Oklahoma. This picture shows several trucks blown over on Interstate 90 near Belvidere, SD. This is just one of several reports of traffic accidents in the region caused by strong winds and/or blowing dust." - U.S. National Weather Service.
Our Near-Real-Time (NRT) Dust Aerosol Detection System (DADS) for the date can be accessed
here: NRT DADS. In this site you can download the data granules corresponding to this dust storm, which are
16:55 (UTC) and
18:35 (UTC), both corresponding to multispectral data processed from the NASA Terra-MODIS instrument.
More information (local news) for Oklahoma can be
found here and
here.
Also for other reports about Kansas can be
found here.
From our NRT-DADS system we produced the following images:
On the left is the true color image of the dust storm. On the right the detected probability of dust aerosols. The darker the less probable, the lighter the more probable.
This is the full-size image granule from MODIS 16:55 UTC.
This is the full-size dust aerosol detection system's output.
This is the true color detection with a color coded area where the dust aerosol probability is higher.
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