DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z October 20, 2014
Northern Gulf of Mexico/Florida Coast: A thin aerosol is present in GOES imagery today stretching east-west along a remnant frontal boundary over the Gulf of Mexico and just to the east of Florida. Cloud cover expanding northeastward across the central Gulf is starting to obscure the aerosol whose origin and content are largely unknown, although some portion of the area of aerosol may contain smoke from southeastern U.S. fires over the past few days. North Texas to Great Lakes Region: An unknown aerosol extends from Michigan/Wisconsin southwestward along a frontal boundary across parts of Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, southeast Kansas, Oklahoma, and north Texas. This aerosol is thought to have been pulled northeastward from the south central/central Plains by the upper trough moving through the Great Lakes. 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.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