DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
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Southeastern New Mexico/Western Texas to Eastern Texas/Eastern Oklahoma: More blowing dust continued to emanate from far eastern New Mexico and move eastward across western and central Texas. The blowing dust then became mixed with very large moderately dense to dense smoke plumes which blew up this afternoon from destructive wind fanned fires which erupted across central and southern Oklahoma as well as north central Texas. The dense mixture of smoke and blowing dust then began to curve northeastward across northeastern Texas and eastern and northeastern Oklahoma. More thin blowing dust was also seen moving to the east across southwestern and south central Texas. Central Plains: Leftover thin smoke and blowing dust was still visible circulating around low pressure moving eastward across northern Oklahoma. The thin remnant smoke and blowing dust covered eastern Colorado, western Kansas, northwestern Texas, and western and north central Oklahoma. This particular area of smoke/blowing dust was believed to be from yesterday's agricultural fires burning over eastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma, with the dust from the Southwest. JS THE FORMAT OF THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS BEING MODIFIED. IT WILL NO LONGER DESCRIBE THE VARIOUS PLUMES THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES. THESE PLUMES ARE DEPICTED IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE: JPEG: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/hms.html GIS: http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm KML: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html THIS TEXT PRODUCT WILL CONTINUE TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF SMOKE WHICH HAVE BECOME DETACHED FROM AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE, TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. IT WILL ALSO STILL INCLUDE DESCRIPTIONS OF BLOWING DUST. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THESE CHANGES OR THE SMOKE TEXT PRODUCT IN GENERAL SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov