{"id":1456,"date":"2017-02-09T14:08:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T21:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/training\/visit\/blog\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:06:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:06:28","slug":"7-8-february-2017-new-orleans-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/2017\/02\/09\/7-8-february-2017-new-orleans-power-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"7-8 February 2017, New Orleans Power Outage"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a series of tornadoes<\/a>\u00a0ripped through southeastern Louisiana and southern Mississippi on 7 February 2017, a power outage occurred in eastern New Orleans affecting 10,000 plus people. Below is a screenshot of the affected areas: the red lines imply the power lines are off. Additionally, there are a different colored triangles on the map: the blue, yellow and red colors show 1-50, 51-250, and 251-1000 customers that were affected, respectively, and out of power.<\/p>\n

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Figure 1: Shows the areas in New Orleans affected by the power outage caused by the tornadoes that occurred on 7 February 2017.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

To verify these power outages, one can use the Day\/Night Band (DNB) that utilizes a sun\/moon reflectance model that illuminates atmospheric features, senses emitted lights and monitors clouds during the night-time. Figure 2 \u00a0shows the city of New Orleans before the power outage on 7 February 2017 at 0807Z and Figure 3 shows the magnitude of the power outages in Eastern New Orleans at 0749Z.\u00a0Refer to the red circle in both images.<\/p>\n

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Figure 2:\u00a0A DNB image of the city of New Orleans before the power outage occurred. The red circle is the area of interest to compare to Figure 3. The moon percent visibility and the moon elevation angle are also provided in the top-right hand corner, implying that the moon is above the horizon during this time period.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Figure 3:\u00a0A DNB image of the city of New Orleans after the power outage occurred. The red circle is the area of interest to compare to Figure 2. Approximately 10,000 plus people were affected by the power outage.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A supplemental animation can be seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a series of tornadoes\u00a0ripped through southeastern Louisiana and southern Mississippi on 7 February 2017, a power outage occurred in eastern New Orleans affecting 10,000 plus people. Below is a screenshot of the affected areas: the red lines imply the power lines are off. Additionally, there are a different colored triangles on the map: the Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6129,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions\/6129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}