DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0330Z October 15, 2010
Southeast US/Gulf of Mexico: An area of remnant smoke and possibly other mixed aerosols is seen in this evening's GOES-E visible imagery extending off the the Gulf Coast, across Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, and off the Southeast US coast following behind a frontal boundary. Moderately dense smoke was present in the western Gulf of Mexico off the Texas coast pushing southward. The bulk of this smoke is from the numerous agricultural burns and other fires that have been going on along the Mississippi River Valley over the past few weeks. Midwest/Central Plains: A thin line of aerosol of unknown origin and composition is seen along a frontal boundary that extends southwestward across the Midwest, from southern Wisconsin to eastern Kansas. This thin band of aerosol is only about 18 miles wide but begins to expand and appear more dispersed as it reaches Kansas and Missouri extending westward along the Kansas/Oklahoma border. -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