DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0245Z October 1, 2014
Middle and Lower Mississippi Valley: Seasonal burning continued over southeastern Missouri, eastern Arkansas, and northwestern Mississippi with numerous fires detected in this region resulting in many relatively small smoke plumes which moved generally off to the north and northwest during the afternoon and early evening. Some of these plumes congealed into a somewhat larger area of smoke which was visible primarily over southeastern Missouri. Cloudiness farther to the south especially over eastern Arkansas and northwestern Mississippi interfered with smoke detection. California: A number of small fires (likely agricultural) over the northern portion of the Sacramento Valley were responsible for small smoke plumes which moved rapidly to the south and southeast during the afternoon reaching the central portions of the valley just prior to sunset. Alaska: Visible imagery appears to show streaks of what may be glacial flour moving to the southeast and over the Gulf of Alaska from point sources along the coast of southeastern Alaska. JS Earlier this Morning... Central U.S A small area of residual smoke from numerous ag burns was located over north central Arkansas. 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