Texas air quality

Cooke County, Texas Air Quality

Cooke County33.639, -97.213

The nearest monitor to Cooke County, at Pilot Point C1032, 22 miles away, measured an index of 38 at Mon, 12:00 PM CDT, which is Good for ground-level ozone. Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality forecasts Good for Ardmore today and Good tomorrow. NOAA’s analysts drew light wildfire smoke over the town today.

Measured now
38 · Good
Today
50 · Good
Tomorrow
50 · Good
Pollutant
Ozone

Fine particles on the map

Forecast fine particulate matter from NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability over Cooke County, Texas. Open it for the live map, where it pans and zooms.

Forecast fine particulate matter from NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability over Cooke County, Texas Open the live map with the particulate forecast

Map layer from NOAA National Air Quality Forecast Capability. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

Alerts in force

An Air Quality Alert is issued by the National Weather Service on behalf of a state or local agency when pollution is expected to reach a level that harms health. An Air Stagnation Advisory means the air will not move enough to clear what is already in it.

None are in force near Cooke County right now. All Texas warnings.

Now

Good

Nearest monitor
Pilot Point C1032, 22 miles away (site 481211032)
Index measured
38 · Good
Measured at
Mon, 12:00 PM CDT
Ozone
58 ppb
Reporting area
Ardmore, OK, 36 miles away
Reported by
Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality
Area index
27 · Good

Measured, not modeled. AirNow observations are preliminary until the operating agency certifies them, which happens months later.

Today and tomorrow

Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality's own forecast for Ardmore, written by a forecaster rather than read off a model.

DayCategoryIndexPollutant
TodayGood50Ozone
TomorrowGood50Ozone
Wednesday, September 23Good50Ozone
Thursday, September 24Moderate55Ozone
Friday, September 25Moderate60Ozone
Saturday, September 26Moderate75Ozone

The forecaster’s discussion

Written by Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality for Ardmore and filed with AirNow.

Winds out of the north east will keep pollutant levels low for most of the state through Wednesday. A southerly wind shift beginning Thursday paired with warm temperatures will push ozone into the moderate category for the back end of the week in most areas.

Hour by hour

NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability, bias-corrected against monitors, for this town’s own coordinate. The worst hour ahead is an index of 56, Moderate, around Wed, 12:00 PM CDT, from the run issued Mon, 7:00 AM CDT. This is a model, not a measurement.

HourIndexCategoryPM2.5Ozone
Mon, 9:00 AM CDT16Good3.1
Mon, 10:00 AM CDT28Good6.8
Mon, 11:00 AM CDT30Good5.7
Mon, 12:00 PM CDT30Good5.4
Mon, 1:00 PM CDT27Good4.4
Mon, 2:00 PM CDT27Good4.9
Mon, 3:00 PM CDT37Good4.540.4
Mon, 4:00 PM CDT41Good4.944.6
Mon, 5:00 PM CDT44Good3.648.5
Mon, 6:00 PM CDT47Good4.151.2
Mon, 7:00 PM CDT48Good5.152.5
Mon, 8:00 PM CDT48Good4.652.6
Mon, 9:00 PM CDT48Good3.552.3
Mon, 10:00 PM CDT47Good3.751.3
Mon, 11:00 PM CDT45Good3.649.7
Tue, 12:00 AM CDT44Good4.947.6
Tue, 1:00 AM CDT42Good6.445.2
Tue, 2:00 AM CDT39Good842.7
Tue, 3:00 AM CDT45Good9.639.9
Tue, 4:00 AM CDT47Good8.937.5
Tue, 5:00 AM CDT46Good7.934.7
Tue, 6:00 AM CDT43Good7.431.9
Tue, 7:00 AM CDT45Good8.429.3
Tue, 8:00 AM CDT44Good7.926.8
Tue, 9:00 AM CDT48Good9.224.9
Tue, 10:00 AM CDT53Moderate11.524
Tue, 11:00 AM CDT55Moderate1224.5
Tue, 12:00 PM CDT54Moderate10.926.4
Tue, 1:00 PM CDT53Moderate9.829.2
Tue, 2:00 PM CDT52Moderate8.932.8
Tue, 3:00 PM CDT50Good7.836.6
Tue, 4:00 PM CDT49Good8.540.8
Tue, 5:00 PM CDT42Good6.444.6
Tue, 6:00 PM CDT44Good6.747.7
Tue, 7:00 PM CDT45Good7.749.5
Tue, 8:00 PM CDT45Good6.149.8
Tue, 9:00 PM CDT45Good449.6
Tue, 10:00 PM CDT44Good3.848.8
Tue, 11:00 PM CDT44Good4.547.6
Wed, 12:00 AM CDT42Good5.845.5
Wed, 1:00 AM CDT39Good6.442.9
Wed, 2:00 AM CDT37Good7.839.8
Wed, 3:00 AM CDT42Good8.336.9
Wed, 4:00 AM CDT42Good7.534.4
Wed, 5:00 AM CDT43Good8.131.5
Wed, 6:00 AM CDT48Good9.528.6
Wed, 7:00 AM CDT53Moderate11.625.9
Wed, 8:00 AM CDT52Moderate9.324
Wed, 9:00 AM CDT52Moderate1023
Wed, 10:00 AM CDT55Moderate12.523
Wed, 11:00 AM CDT55Moderate11.524
Wed, 12:00 PM CDT56Moderate12.226.1
Wed, 1:00 PM CDT54Moderate1029.3
Wed, 2:00 PM CDT54Moderate1033.2
Wed, 3:00 PM CDT53Moderate9.537.5
Wed, 4:00 PM CDT53Moderate10.142
Wed, 5:00 PM CDT51Moderate7.746
Wed, 6:00 PM CDT49Good8.649.3
Wed, 7:00 PM CDT49Good8.851.3
Wed, 8:00 PM CDT48Good8.451.9
Wed, 9:00 PM CDT46Good7.151
Wed, 10:00 PM CDT45Good6.349.2
Wed, 11:00 PM CDT43Good7.246.6
Thu, 12:00 AM CDT41Good7.743.5
Thu, 1:00 AM CDT42Good7.840.3
Thu, 2:00 AM CDT44Good8.936.7
Thu, 3:00 AM CDT44Good833.3
Thu, 4:00 AM CDT43Good7.230.4
Thu, 5:00 AM CDT41Good6.627.9
Thu, 6:00 AM CDT40Good7.125.8
Thu, 7:00 AM CDT43Good9.123.8

Fine particles in micrograms per cubic meter, ozone in parts per billion as an 8-hour average. The index for each hour is EPA’s: the ozone figure is already the 8-hour average the ozone index is defined on, and the particle figure is run through EPA’s NowCast, which is how an hourly PM2.5 concentration becomes an index.

Smoke

NOAA’s Hazard Mapping System analysts drew light smoke over Cooke County in satellite imagery today (Mon, 7:00 AM CDT to Mon, 10:00 AM CDT). That is smoke seen from above; it is not always smoke at ground level.

NOAA’s model forecasts near-surface smoke peaking at 0.3 µg/m³ around Sun, 11:00 PM CDT.

Smoke on the radar over Cooke County

What this means

Good

Air quality is satisfactory, and air pollution poses little or no risk.

Who is affected
Nobody is expected to be affected.
What to do
It is a good day to be outside.
Index range
0 to 50

Category descriptions are the Environmental Protection Agency’s own.

What these numbers are. An index beside a monitor’s name is a measurement, published hourly by AirNow and preliminary until the operating agency certifies it. A category for today or tomorrow is a state or local agency forecaster’s own forecast for a reporting area. An hourly index is NOAA’s air quality model on a five-kilometer grid, not a reading from any instrument. Where a town has no monitor within reach, only the model figures appear, and the page says so.

Nearby

The nearest towns with a page of their own, closest first.

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Sources

Observations and daily forecasts from AirNow, the US Environmental Protection Agency’s program with NOAA, the National Park Service, NASA, tribal, state and local agencies. Hourly forecasts from NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability. Smoke analysis from NOAA’s Hazard Mapping System. Alerts from the National Weather Service. Index categories and breakpoints are EPA’s, as revised in 2024.