Wednesday, March 23, 2011

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z March 24, 2011

Midwest:
Agricultural fires were abundant throughout Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri,
and Kansas today.   These fires produced numerous smoke plumes, which
generally moved to the southeast.  Satellite imagery over eastern Oklahoma
showed large areas of smoke.

Mexico:
Fires burning in state of Coahuila in Mexico were producing smoke that
approached the Rio Grande River and the the Texas border this evening
along Val Verde County.

Myrga

From earlier today:

Southeast Coast:
Again today, another large area of remnant smoke from the numerous fires
burning throughout the southeast remains off the southwest coast from
Florida northward through the Carolinas.

Western Gulf of Mexico:
A large area of light smoke can be seen stretching northward towards the
Louisiana and Texas coastlines in the western Gulf of Mexico. Numerous
fires through Mexico and Central America as well as burning from oil rigs
through the Bay of Campeche have contributed to this large area of smoke.

Southern Nevada/Southwest Utah:
A small area of blowing dust originating from near Coyote Springs,
NV is moving to the northeast into portions of southwest Utah.

Belge


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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.