DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1715Z October 6, 2010
Central US Plains/Midwest/Great Lakes/Ontario/Quebec: A large area of mixed unknown aerosols and thin to moderate density smoke stretched from northern Oklahoma northward to southeast South Dakota/south Minnesota and northeast across James Bay/central Quebec in Canada. Another swath of believed mix of smoke/aerosol stretched northward from northern Indiana across the Great Lakes and merged into the rest of the plume. Some of this mix of smoke and other aerosols was seen yesterday across the northern Plains and had just moved eastward with a frontal boundary. Some additional smoke may have been added by the numerous ag fires that were burning yesterday in two areas: southeast Saskatchewan/southern Manitoba/North Dakota and also Kansas/Oklahoma. Arkansas/Oklahoma: Two small areas of thin remnant smoke over central Arkansas and east Oklahoma and one slightly larger area of thin smoke over west Oklahoma was seen this morning. This smoke is likely from yesterday's ag fires. Texas Coast: An area of thin smoke moving is seen this morning moving southwest along the Texas coast. Most of this smoke is leftover from the numerous agricultural fires burning yesterday along the Mississippi River and across Louisiana, but some smoke may also be coming from an active fire seen today in southwest Louisiana. Sheffler 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