DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0215Z April 15, 2010
South Central US/Central Plains/Ohio Valley/Southeast: Once again, many smoke producing fires were detected in satellite imagery across a broad region including the Southeast, the South Central US, the Central Plains, and the Ohio Valley. The smoke plumes were moving in a clockwise direction around high pressure centered over western Kentucky. The most significant smoke producing fires were over western South Carolina, central Georgia, the Florida Panhandle, western Arkansas, eastern and northeastern Oklahoma, eastern Kansas, and south central Missouri. Western to Central Canada: An aerosol of unknown origin and composition was visible late this afternoon with the favorable low sun angle in GOES-East imagery covering a very large area from the northeastern Pacific inland across western and central Canada including northern British Columbia, northern Alberta, and northern Saskatchewan provinces, as well as areas farther to the north in northwestern Canada. It is possible that the source for at least some of this aerosol may be blowing dust transported across the Pacific from Asia. JS 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