The Brian Head Fire east of Cedar City, Utah was influenced by strong winds from the southwest that at times gusted over 40 mph while the relative humidity dipped to five percent.
The intense burning caused a pyrocumulus cloud to develop as the fire and the smoke moved to the northeast. As you can see here, a satellite photographed the smoke plume and it was also detected by radar.
Only judging from the fire intensity shown in these images, I would be surprised if the indirect contingency firelines constructed Sunday by dozers northeast of the fire were able to constrain the blaze as hoped.
#BrianHeadFire pyrocumulus cloud looking east from Cedar City pic.twitter.com/leMtCYAlTu
— Craig (@Craig_Marchant) June 27, 2017
Bless all the firemen and the people fighting the fire.
Bill I live in Parowan whatever gains firefighter made over the weekend just went out the window today 25mph wind all day you can visible see fire has moved north I think fire burned at the minumim another 5000 acres today gonna blow again tomorrow those guys are studs firefighters our community say thank you more then they will ever know marc Anders Parowan ut