DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0315Z October 14, 2010
Currently: Northern Plains/Southern Mid Canada: Hundreds of fires burning across North Dakota, southern/central Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba are producing mostly light smoke moving in a easterly direction. A few are producing moderately dense smoke. Several other areas across the country have numerous fires burning producing mostly light to moderately dense smoke.....Pacific Northwest/southwest and Central Plains/Mississippi Valley. Earlier Today: Mississippi Valley/Southern Plain: An area of light smoke was detected this morning from southeast Missouri through most of Arkansas, eastern Oklahoma and southward into eastern Texas. An embedded pocket of moderately dense smoke was seen in northeast Arkansas. The smoke was moving south. J Kibler 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