DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1630Z February 29, 2012
Southern/Central Plains/Mississippi Valley/Ohio and Tennessee Valley/Great Lakes: A large area of dust stretching from New Mexico to Indiana is moving rapidly east across the Central US. Dust spreads across central/eastern New Mexico, northern Texas, most of Oklahoma, central/eastern Kansas, southern Iowa, most of Missouri and into most of Illinois and Indiana. The heaviest band of dust extends through northern Texas, central Oklahoma, southeast Kansas, central Missouri and Illinois and into northern Indiana. Another area of dust, but minor in nature to the above is moving out of eastern Colorado/New Mexico and into western Kansas and the Oklahoma/Texas Panhandle. J Kibler 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