DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0400Z November 25, 2017
SMOKE: Central and Southeastern US... Scattered seasonal fires were detected across the Central and Southeastern portions of the US through the day with a number of individual thin density localized smoke plumes seen in satellite imagery especially over the South Central and Southeastern US. The most concentrated area of visible smoke was due to the seasonal fires occurring in south central Louisiana. These fires produced many individual smoke plumes which combined to form a somewhat larger patch of thin density smoke over south central Louisiana. JS Earlier This Morning... SMOKE: Florida... Seasonable burning near the south side of Lake Okeechobee is spreading thin smoke plumes eastward into the Atlantic. Southern California... A narrow thin smoke plume is spreading southwest from a vegetation fire near Vandenberg AFB. BK 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