DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0330Z September 19, 2010
Lower Mississippi Valley: A large number of agricultural burns in southeast Missouri, eastern Arkansas, northwest Mississippi and northeast Louisiana were producing numerous thin plumes of smoke that were quickly detaching from the source fires and moving west-southwest. Northern California: Blowing dust was seen early this evening from a source in Lassen County, California. The dust was moving toward the northeast. Earlier Today: Southeast U.S.: An area of aerosols that is possibly mixed in with some smoke from this weeks fires across the lower Mississippi valley, is over North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, northern Florida where it is slowly moving east out into the Atlantic. Earle 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