DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1445Z April 16, 2014
Smoke: Great Lakes: Remnant smoke from large prairie fires across E KS from last night has been vertically transported and mixed with Asian dust/smoke transported over the last few weeks ahead of cyclone in SD. The smoke is very light and is only detected at very oblique sun angle from GOES-West, but is currently seen coming from the eastern edge of the cirrus of the cyclone across Lake Michigan across the eastern portion of the UP and all of the LP of Michigan, extreme northern IL, IN and NW OH, before becoming too difficult to determine location due to GOES-West parallax. All appears to be moving due East, attm. Unknown (likely smoke): Missouri/Iowa: A very narrow, approximately 30km wide, N-S oriented band of unknown aerosols can be seen only using GOES-West, due to oblique sun angle in early morning. This extends from as far south as Cole county, MO to about Washington county, IA... through breaks in clouds. Loop of visible imagery clearly shows elements moving north within this feature in agreement with sfc and boundary layer winds. It is likely the band is related to smoke from prairie fires in KS, but this cannot be confirmed, though it is clearly not fog or other clouds. Gallina 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.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/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