NOAA Daily Operational Significant Events Support Report 16 Apr 2003
Satellite information that appears in filenames below:
G8 – GOES-8
G10- GOES-10
GM – GMS
MT – METEOSAT
N2 – NOAA-12 (AVHRR)
N4 – NOAA-14 (AVHRR)
N5 – NOAA-15 (AVHRR)
N6 – NOAA-16 (AVHRR)
The following categories of significant events were searched for in imagery available in the Satellite
Services Division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:
1. Fires – no imagery posted
2. Floods – no imagery posted
3. Tropical Systems – see below** [W. Pacific Ocean]
4. Volcanoes – no imagery posted
5. Ocean – no imagery posted
6. Ice – no imagery posted
7. Dust Storms – [US Midwest, Iraq]
8. Storms -no imagery posted
9. Severe – no imagery posted
10. Snow – no imagery posted
11. Unique – no imagery posted
Significant events identified by Satellite Analysis Branch meteorologists and reviewed by the
Operational Significant Event Imagery support team Wednesday, April 16, 2003 are as follows:
DUST STORM ACROSS CENTRAL IRAQ
IMAGE D10601: NOAA-16 LAC> Channels 1, 2, 4 <>04/16/2003 10:05 UTC<>Multichannel
color composite<>Iraq
Dust (gray haze) is visible across central Iraq. The dust storm (indicated by the yellow arrows) extends
from near the border with Saudi Arabia to central Iraq, just west of Baghdad.
Image provided in preview (~65K) and standard (295K) formats.
Preview (500X550):
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Iraq/DSTiraq106_N6L.jpg
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Iraq/DSTiraq106_N6L.jpg
Standard (969X1065)
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Iraq/DSTiraq106_N6.jpg
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Iraq/DSTiraq106_N6.jpg
DUST STORM ACROSS CENTRAL PLAINS
MOVIE D10602: GOES-12 > Channels 1,3, 4 <>04/16/2003 19:45 – 04/17/2003 00:15
UTC<>Multichannel color composite<>US Plains
Image provided in standard (990K) formats.
Dust (gray haze) is visible across central plains region. Powerful winds with gusts as high as 130 mph
swept through southern New Mexico on April 15, 2003, prompting road closure and causing a 10-car
pileup that killed two people.
Standard (700X518)
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Dust/US_Plains/2003/DSTus106_G12.avi
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Dust/US_Plains/2003/DSTus106_G12.avi
DUST STORM ACROSS CENTRAL PLAINS
MOVIE D10603: GOES-12 > Channels 1,3, 4 <>04/16/2003 19:45 – 04/17/2003 00:15
UTC<>Multichannel color composite<>US Plains
Image provided in standard (116K) formats.
Standard (700X518)
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Dust/US_Plains/2003/DSTus106_G12.mpg
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Dust/US_Plains/2003/DSTus106_G12.mpg
DUST STORM ACROSS CENTRAL PLAINS
IMAGE D10604: GOES-12 > Channels 1,3, 4 <> 04/16/2003 23:45 UTC<>Multichannel color
composite<>US Plains
Image provided in preview (~65K) and standard (581K) formats.
Dust (gray haze) is visible across central plains region. Powerful winds with gusts as high as 130 mph
swept through southern New Mexico on April 15, 2003, prompting road closure and causing a 10-car
pileup that killed two people.
Preview (500X394):
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Dust/US_Plains/2003/DSTus106_G12L.jpg
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Dust/US_Plains/2003/DSTus106_G12L.jpg
Standard (1280X100895)
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Dust/US_Plains/2003/DSTus106_G12.jpg
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Dust/US_Plains/2003/DSTus106_G12.jpg
TYPHOON 02W (KUJIRA)
IMAGE D10605: GMS> Channels 1, 3, 4 <>04/15/2003 05:02 UTC<>Multichannel
color composite<>W. Pacific
Typhoon 02W (Kujira) was located over the Pacific Ocean near 13.8N 135.15E at 12:00 UTC.
Kujira has been moving west-northwestward at 11 knots with maximum sustained winds estimated at
130 knots, gusts at 160 knots.
Image provided in preview (~65K) and standard (659K) formats.
Preview (500X394):
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Tropical/W_Pacific/2003/TRCkujira106_GML.jpg
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Tropical/W_Pacific/2003/TRCkujira106_GML.jpg
Standard (1280X1008)
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Tropical/W_Pacific/2003/TRCkujira106_GM.jpg
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Tropical/W_Pacific/2003/TRCkujira106_GM.jpg
The NOAA Operational Significant Event Imagery Support Team
Interactive Processing Branch, (E/SP22)
tel: (301) 763-8142
fax: (301) 899-9196
If you have any questions or comments, please contact the appropriate OSEI scientist:
George Stephens, Hydrologist, OSEI Team Leader
[OSEI questions / comments, OSEI product creation, Image processing, OSEI dust event contact,
OSEI fire event contact, OSEI snow cover event contact, OSEI volcanic event contact]
George.Stephens@noaa.gov
(301) 763-8142 X129
Robert Fennimore, Meteorologist
[OSEI questions / comments, OSEI product creation, Image processing, OSEI GIS product
contact, OSEI tropical event contact, OSEI snow event contact]
Rob.Fennimore@noaa.gov
(301) 763-8142 X132
Ralph Meiggs, Physical Scientist
[OSEI questions / comments, Image processing, OSEI ocean event contact, OSEI ice event
contact]
Ralph.Meiggs@noaa.gov
(301) 763-8142 X137
William Tseng, Oceanographer
[OSEI questions / comments, Image processing, OSEI ocean event contact, OSEI ice event
contact]
William.Tseng@noaa.gov
(301) 763-8142 X124
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