DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0315Z October 8, 2010
Middle and Lower Mississippi Valley: Numerous agricultural fires were responsible for many thin to locally moderately dense smoke plumes which moved in a southeasterly direction and consolidated in some spots to form somewhat larger patches of smoke. Farther to the south, a large number of fires were also analyzed across the southern third of Louisiana. The smoke plumes from these fires moved mainly to the south with some smoke spreading over the western Gulf of Mexico. North Central US/South Central Canada: Seasonal fires again were noted over portions of south central Canada as well as North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota. Some cloudiness did interfere with smoke detection but a few smoke plumes were observed moving to the east and northeast. Western US: Widespread cloudiness around a large ares of low pressure significantly inhibited fire and smoke detection in satellite imagery. The only smoke producing fires detected in satellite imagery were in less cloudy areas of central California and northern Washington. JS Earlier Today... Central US: A large area of remnant smoke from previous days fires can be seen throughout the central United States. An area of moderately dense smoke extends from north to south from western Kansas, down through western Oklahoma and into the panhandle of Texas. Lighter smoke can be seen through this same area but also extends east through Missouri and Arkansas into southern Illinois, western Kentucky and western Tennessee. The full extent of the smoke to the east cannot be seen due to the areal coverage of western geostationary satellite. -Salemi 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