DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0400Z October 12, 2011
Lower Mississippi Valley Several agricultural burns are producing a large area of detached thin density smoke over southeast Missouri, eastern Arkansas, and northwest Mississippi. From earlier... Ontario: Remnant smoke continues to be pushed off to the east ahead of a cold front in western Ontario. It is believed the aerosol, which is mostly remnant smoke, originated from the numerous agricultural burns in the Dakotas and southern Canada along with the Juneberry wildfire in northern Minnesota. Updated... Gulf of Mexico: Remnant moderate density smoke from fires in extreme southeastern Texas is observed to be moving southward into the northern Gulf of Mexico for a few hundred kilometers. Ramirez/Myrga THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME DETACHED FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE..TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ARE ALSO DESCRIBED. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF THESE AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO THE SOURCE FIRE 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 ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov