NASA MODIS Image of the Day: March 3, 2007 – Dust Storm over Northern Texas
High winds wreaked havoc across northern Texas on February 24, 2007. According to Dallas Morning News and Houston Chronicle, downed power lines left some 37,000 homes and businesses without electricity while gusts up to 100 kilometers (60 miles) per hour fueled grass fires and kicked up dust.
Just how much dust the wind kicked up, is visible in these two images taken by the MODIS on the Aqua satellite. The images show a boomerang-shaped dust storm sweeping across the state, narrowly missing the Dallas metropolitan area to the east. The main image shows the afternoon of February 24, 2007 – if you move your mouse over the image, you can see where the storm was that morning.
Source points for the dust storm appear along the western edge of the plume, along with hotspots (in red) where MODIS detected anomalously warm surface temperatures, likely from a grass fire. Smaller hotspots also appear south of Dallas.
