DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0400Z March 6, 2017
SMOKE: Mid-Atlantic/Central Appalachians/Southeast... Only widely scattered individual smoke plumes were detected during the day from Virginia southward to Georgia. A little farther to the west, a couple of more significant plumes were seen spreading to the north and northeast from fires in southeastern Tennessee and eastern Kentucky. Otherwise, because of the fact that less burning was occurring than in recent days and more cloudiness was present, much less fire and smoke was detected in satellite imagery over the Central, South Central, and Southeastern US. DUST: Southwestern US... Streaks of mainly thin to moderately dense blowing dust were visible emanating from source regions in southeastern California, southern Nevada, southwestern to north central Utah, and northwestern and north central to northeastern Arizona. The most significant dust appeared to stretch from southwestern to north central Utah and northern to northeastern Arizona. All of the dust in these regions was generally moving quickly off to the northeast. Another area of possible blowing dust was noted spreading from far northern Mexico (just south of the New Mexico border) and southwestern New Mexico across far western Texas and south central and southeastern New Mexico. Cloudiness moving over this area made detection of blowing dust difficult. JS 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