DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z April 10, 2017
SMOKE Florida: A fire burning in western Hernando county continued to burn through the afternoon and evening and generate a plume of light to moderately dense smoke moving west in the Gulf of Mexico. A large fire in southern Florida in northeast Collier county was producing a plume of moderately dense to dense smoke that was also moving west into the Gulf by sunset. Several fires in the northern Bahamas were producing light to moderately dense plumes of smoke that were extending to the west-southwest toward south Florida. Gulf Coast States: Numerous fires were detected which had notable plumes of moderately dense to locally dense smoke from east Texas to Georgia. The smoke from the more eastern fires over Georgia was moving to the west while most of the smoke from Texas to Alabama was moving toward the north. Central Plains: An area of light remnant smoke was seen over eastern Nebraska and into northwest Iowa and south central Minnesota, although the full extent of the smoke was not able to be discerned due to cloud cover. This smoke was from the extensive burning over the Flint Hills the past few days. Gulf of Mexico: Remnant smoke from the agricultural burning in the Yucatan and central America was likely mixing with Saharan dust and was seen mostly over the southwest and western Gulf. This area of smoke was mostly light and was lifting slowly to the north toward the Texas coast. is producing two narrow lines of light smoke moving west and west southwest into the eastern Gulf of Mexico. DUST Kansas: Strong winds swept across western and central Kansas this evening and generated some blowing dust. One area was lifting to the northeast into central Kansas and another thin line of dust along a wind shift boundary was moving from west to east from western into central parts of the state. Texas/Oklahoma: A more extensive area of light dust was generated from strong winds over western Texas near Seminole with the dust moving to the northeast toward Wichita Falls by sunset. California/Nevada/Arizona/Utah: Long range transport of aerosol was seen broadly from California to western Utah and Arizona. This aerosol has crossed the Pacific and aerosol transport models suggest that it is likely blowing dust with some sulfate likely mixed in. Ruminski 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