DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z April 25, 2014
Mississippi River Valley/Southern Plains: A large plume of blowing dust was visible in satellite imagery this morning moving east through Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Illinois. The origin of this dust is Asian, blowing over from the Pacific. It is also possible that the dust has mixed with remnant smoke in the area from the recent agricultural burns that have been present in the area recently. It is difficult to determine how far east the dust is visible due to the visual limitations of GOES-W. Western Gulf of Mexico: An area of light-density smoke is visible across much of the western Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas all the way south to the base of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. The smoke originates from the many agricultural burns that are taking place all across Mexico. Oegerle 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