DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1615Z October 19, 2009
Southeastern Texas: Early morning GOES-West visible imagery indicates the presence of possible smoke of very thin density leftover from the fires yesterday over extreme southern Louisiana. The possible leftover smoke moved southwestward and westward overnight and into the coastal portions of southeastern Texas, just southeast of Houston early this morning. However,due to patchy cloudiness in the area, it is very uncertain if this actually is a patch of aerosol. Because of the significant uncertainty, this area of questionable smoke is not analyzed in the graphical products listed below. The National Weather Service smoke forecast does depict this area of smoke moving into southeastern Texas.... http://www.nws.noaa.gov/aq/sectors/conus.php JS More information on areas of smoke described above as well as others can be found at the locations listed below. THE FORMAT OF THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS BEING MODIFIED. IT WILL NO LONGER DESCRIBE THE VARIOUS PLUMES THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES. THESE PLUMES ARE DEPICTED IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE: JPEG: http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/land/hms.html GIS: http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm KML: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html THIS TEXT PRODUCT WILL CONTINUE TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF SMOKE WHICH HAVE BECOME DETACHED FROM AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE, TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. IT WILL ALSO STILL INCLUDE DESCRIPTIONS OF BLOWING DUST. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THESE CHANGES OR THE SMOKE TEXT PRODUCT IN GENERAL SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov