DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0215Z April 20, 2011
Gulf of Mexico and Southern Texas and Southeast Coast: Light to moderately dense smoke from wildfires in Central America remains over much of the western and central Gulf of Mexico and extends behind the sea breeze into Texas/Louisana/Mississippi/Alabama. Large fires continuing in northern Mexico are also continuing to spew smoke eastward over southern Texas and into the Gulf of Mexico contributing to the remand smoke area. Area of light remnant smoke can be seen in in late day imagery off the coast of North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. North Central Texas: Area of blowing dust seen from the TX/NM border west of Lubbock and extends east to Mineral Wells. Pacific Northwest and Southern California/Baja: Large areas of aerosols believed to be dust from eastern Asia remans present over Washington and Oregon as well as Southern California and the northern Baja/Gulf of California. Liddick 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