Saturday, May 7, 2011

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1730Z May 7, 2011

Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas:
Remnant light smoke was seen in this morning's satellite imagery tracking
east to east southeast across eastern CO, eastern NM and into KS, OK and
northern TX. This smoke mostly originating from a large wildfire that has
been burning for several days in northern Grant County in southwestern
New Mexico. Other sources for this area are agricultural fires across
a large portion of Mexico.

Eastern Gulf of Mexico and Southeast Coast USA:
An area of remnant light smoke with embedded elongated area of moderately
dense smoke is seen tracking south to southeast off the east coast of
GA and FL. A smaller patch of light smoke was seen moving southwest off
the coast of FL into eastern Gulf of Mexico. These areas of smoke are
remnant from the wildfire that continues to burn near the FL/GA border
and the wildfire in extreme eastern NC.

Earle


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.