DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1715Z October 8, 2010
Texas coast/Arkansas/Gulf of Mexico: Yesterday's fires in the Mississippi Valley southward into Louisiana produced an area of thin remnant smoke across the western and central Gulf of Mexico, as well as portions of the Texas coast. Another small area of remnant smoke was seen over southern Arkansas. Several actively burning fires this morning in southwest Louisiana were also producing additional smoke that was traveling southeast. Central Plains/Midwest/Western Great Lakes/Southeast Manitoba/Southwest Ontario: A fairly large area of thin to moderate density remnant smoke was seen moving across southeast Manitoba, southwest Ontario, east Minnesota, Wisconsin, northeast Iowa, the U.P. Of Michigan, and Lakes Superior and Michigan. Most of this smoke likely came from the fires in southern Saskatchewan, southern Manitoba, and North Dakota. Another smaller area of remnant smoke was seen moving northward from Kansas into Nebraska, likely from the fires in Kansas and Oklahoma yesterday. Sheffler 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