DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z September 28, 2013
Southern Plains/Southern Mississippi River Valley/Southeast US: Areas of thin smoke were seen in a north-south orientation along the Louisiana/Texas border and the Arkansas/Oklahoma border with another small patch of smoke seen along the Kansas/Missouri border. Numerous agricultural fires burning along the Mississippi River had produced most of this smoke yesterday and additional smoke was being emitted by the ag fires this evening. Further east over portions of Kentucky, Tennessee, northwest Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, the western Florida Panhandle, and southeast Louisiana an aerosol was seen that is believed to be haze/pollution. It extended southeast across the northern Gulf of Mexico and mixed with some of the smoke along the Mississippi River Valley. Hudson Bay: An unknown aerosol continued to be seen across northern Ontario and Hudson Bay this evening. This aerosol could be a mix of smoke from the central US ag fires and other unknown aerosols/pollution. Sheffler THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF 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