19, 20 April 1997 view of Grand Forks, ND fire and Red River flood
The Fire
The major news for this time period is the serious fires in downtown
Grand Forks, North Dakota. At least 11 buildings were destroyed,
firefighting was greatly complicated by the flood waters. See the
Grand Forks
Herald Flood Watch page for many more details.
Here is a NOAA-12 image of the Grand Forks fire. Click on the image
for a much larger area (at the same scale). This image was taken at
6:49 PM CDT, early evening before sundown. Clouds are seen in the full
image, some dark and some light. The flood widens north of Grand Forks.
The Flood
The following images show several views which were acquired over the weekend.
Only a reduced size narrow vertical strip of each image is shown, click
on one for the full view. The top row of images show the northern
section of the Red River of the North, the bottom row the southern section.
The images times are given in UT and the views alternate between early
evening NOAA-12 images (around 7 pm CDT)
and middle of the night NOAA-14 images (around 3:30 AM CDT).
Some clouds interfere. It is interesting how the contrast between the
land and water varies with time of day. In the nighttime images
the land has cooled to be colder than the water so the water appears
brighter. In the early evening views the land is still warmer than
the water so the water appears dark. High clouds appear very dark.
Apr 19 00:11
NOAA-12 |
Apr 19 08:44
NOAA-14 |
Apr 19 23:49
NOAA-12 |
Apr 20 08:33
NOAA-14 |
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