DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2300Z January 22, 2017
SMOKE and DUST: Southern Texas: A large fire burning in Brooks county (near Falfurrias and southwest of Corpus Christi) is continuing to produce large amounts of light to moderately dense smoke moving southeast across the state. The smoke extends over 300 nm into the western Gulf of Mexico. SSE of the large fire is an area of blowing dust (near Raymondville and north of Brownsville) that is combining with the smoke and moving southeast into the Gulf of Mexico. High winds across the southern Texas are producing small areas of blowing dust seen in satellite imagery and moving SE. Gulf of Mexico... An area of remnant smoke and blowing dust that was generated over northern Mexico last evening has now channeled along a frontal boundary and extends from the southwest Gulf of Mexico northeastward into the central Gulf and reaching to the Florida Panhandle and parts of W Florida by 0000z. J Kibler 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