DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0002Z January 30, 2018
SMOKE: Southern Plains/Lower Mississippi Valley... From Eastern Kansas to central Mississippi to southern Texas, numerous fires were seen emitting smoke plumes this afternoon. Most are emitting light smoke, but fires in east-central Texas and west-central Louisiana have emitted some thicker smoke. All of these smoke plumes are moving off to somewhere between south-southwest to south-southeast. Northern Texas Panhandle/southeastern Colorado/New Mexico... A few thin smoke plumes were observed across the northern Texas panhandle, southeastern Colorado, and New Mexico. The smoke plumes on New Mexico and Texas were moving off to the west or west-southwest, and the ones in Colorado are moving to the north. BLOWING DUST: Northern Chihuahua... A small amount of blowing dust was observed moving northwestward from a dry lake bed in northern Chihuahua toward southern New Mexico this afternoon. -Hosley 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