DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0015Z April 13, 2010
Mid Atlantic: A swath of remnant smoke approximately 200 km wide was seen extending off the Mid Atlantic coast from the southern tip of the Delmarva to the northern Outer Banks of North Carolina. This is smoke from the numerous fires in the Central Plains of the past few days. The smoke that was seen earlier today extending back over the Ohio Valley was not discernible this evening due to clouds over the area and gradual thinning of the smoke. Central Plains: Another round of fires was seen again today over eastern Kansas and Oklahoma which is producing another surge of smoke that was lifting north across eastern Kansas into southeast Nebraska and southwest Iowa. Several large fires with very dense smoke were seen over west central Arkansas, southeast Oklahoma and southeast Missouri. All of this smoke was lifting to the north and northwest. Southeast: Several fires across South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama were producing plumes of moderately dense smoke that were drifting mainly to the southwest. Southwest: Strong winds ahead of a frontal system moving into the Intermountain region was kicking up a large area of blowing dust. The dust was being generated over north central and northeast Arizona and northwest New Mexico by sunset with the dust lifting to the north and northeast over much of eastern Utah and western Colorado. Previous discussion: Central Plains through the Ohio Valley and Mid Atlantic: A broad swath of mostly light to moderately dense smoke was seen extending from Iowa and Illinois east southeastward across Kentucky and southern Ohio to West Virginia, Virginia and southern Maryland. The smoke then extended well off the coast into the Atlantic. This smoke originated from several days of intense burning with a large number of fires mainly in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. An area of light to moderately dense smoke was also seen lifting north over eastern Kansas this morning, which is likely from a couple of wildfires that were active through the overnight and into this morning over eastern Oklahoma. 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