DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0030Z April 30, 2010
Southwest/Plains/Southern Rockies: An area of significant dust/sand is blowing across sections of the Southwest US into the Southern and Central Plains. The dust/sand is originating from SE Arizona, S New Mexico and N Mexico (just south of Arizona/New Mexico Border) and is moving across parts of W Texas into the Panhandle, W Oklahoma and into W/C Kansas. The most dense dust/sand is blowing across a large section of S and E New Mexico and W Texas (Panhandle included). Southeast/Mississippi Valley: Numerous fires are burning across the region with mostly light to moderately dense smoke being produced. Most smoke plumes are moving toward the N. A large majority of smoke producing fires are located in the states of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. Eastern Nebraska/Western and Central Iowa/Minnesota: The dust/sand seen earlier today is now located across section of W Iowa and S Minnesota. The origin of this dust/sand was NE Arizona/NW New Mexico. J Kibler Earlier Today: Eastern Nebraska/Western and Central Iowa: Dust originally from NE Arizona/NW New Mexico is now spreading across parts of E Nebraska and N and C Iowa. The area of dust today is much smaller and not as dense. J Kibler 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