DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z March 19, 2010
Eastern California/Western Nevada: Areas of blowing dust are spreading S across parts of the western US. In California dust has spread S across Madera, Mariposa, Tulare, Fresno and Kern counties. In Nevada blowing dust can be seen moving S across the counties of Mineral, Lyon and Churchill. Mississippi Valley/Central/Southern Plains: Numerous fires across the regions are emitting mostly light smoke, but a few are producing moderately dense to dense smoke. Some of the smoke from these fires are combining to produce an area of light smoke across NE Oklahoma and SE Kansas. Earlier Today: Lower and Middle Mississippi Valley: An area of thin remnant smoke associated with yesterday's fires stretches across parts of E Arkansas, SE Missouri, W Tennessee and NW Mississippi. Eastern Texas: A small area of thin remnant smoke is located in E Texas and is beginning to move into W central Louisiana. Also from yesterday's fires. J Kibler Information on these and other smoke plumes can be found at the links below. 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.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/land/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