DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z February 15, 2011
East Coast: An area of light smoke extends off the Mid-Atlantic/Southeast Coast from central Florida to just off the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The residual smoke is from the numerous fires burning across the Southeast, Mississippi Valley and Central/Southern Plains over the last couple of days. Southeast/Mississippi Valley: Numerous fires burning across the Gulf Coast States are producing mostly light to moderately dense smoke moving eastward. The largest number of fires emitting smoke extended from the states of Mississippi through Florida. Most of the larger fires continued to have the smoke plumes attached to the source at sunset. Nevada/Oregon/Southeast California: Several areas of blowing dust can be seen across parts of central/northern Nevada, southern/eastern Oregon and southern California. These areas of dust are blowing toward the northeast to ENE. 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. THE SMOKE TEXT PRODUCT IN GENERAL SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THESE CHANGES OR THE SMOKE TEXT PRODUCT IN GENERAL SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov