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NOAA’s GOES-14 Rapidscan of Washington’s Cougar Creek Fire

NOAA’s GOES-14 Rapidscan of Washington’s Cougar Creek Fire
Credits: NOAA/University of Wisconsin Madison/SSEC/CIMSS

1-minute interval GOES-14 SRSO-R visible (0.63 µm) images  revealed the pulsing nature of the large Cougar Creek wildfire complex burning in southern Washington (not far southwest of Yakima) on 12 August 2015.

The second fire blow-up that began around 1700 UTC apparently produced a pyrocumulonimbus cloud, with cloud-top IR Brightness Temperature (BT) values cooling past -40º C. Large amounts of smoke were transported northward and then northeastward away from the fire source region.

NOAA/University of Wisconsin Madison/SSEC/CIMSS