DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600 April 2, 2010
Southern Plains: Remnants of last evening's blowing dust over West Texas and eastern New Mexico were still detectable behind the back edge of clouds over north central Texas from near Abilene through Wichita Falls and into central Oklahoma and south central Kansas. This blowing dust is likely no longer surface based but has been lofted. Southeast: A small patch of remnant smoke from the numerous fires in the Southeast yesterday was barely detectable over west central Georgia and east central Alabama. Gulf of Mexico: An area of smoke from the agricultural fires burning in Mexico and Central America was seen lifting north out of the Bay of Campeche. The smoke was light in density and reached to about 25N and was mainly along and east of 95W. Ruminski 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