Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Dust Storm in Texas Jan/22/2012 // Catching Up

This is data of the dust storm event of January 22nd, 2012.

Location: North-West Texas.
Time: Between 05:00 1/22 and 15:00 1/23 UTC

Blowing dust developed in New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma on 22 January 2012. Winds of 60-70 mph gusted Texas, and reduced visibility to 0.5 miles. A large number of individual blowing dust plumes converged into a single large blowing dust cloud. The primary large dust plume moved to the northeast Oklahoma, meanwhile, smaller dust plumes moved southeast Oklahoma and Texas panhandle regions behind a secondary cold front


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MODIS True Color Image 18:25 UTC:
LP-SVR Dust Aerosol Detector 18:25 UTC:

MODIS True Color Image 16:45 UTC:

LP-SVR Dust Aerosol Detector 18:25 UTC:

MODIS True Color Image 20:00 UTC:

LP-SVR Dust Aerosol Detector 20:00 UTC:




More information:
 http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/9601
 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=77006
 http://www.nbcdfw.com/weather/stories/Dust-Storm-Cancels-Flights-137865953.html
http://kfyo.com/treacherous-conditions-across-lubbock-sunday-afternoon/
http://www.mesonet.ttu.edu/cases/Duststorm_012212/20120122.html
http://blogs.wlfi.com/2012/01/22/powerhouse-spring-like-storm-now-developing-with-massive-texas-dust-storm/
http://alg.umbc.edu/usaq/archives/004445.html
http://meteorologicalmusings.blogspot.com/2012/01/photo-of-dust-storm-in-progress-at.html