DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z October 10, 2010
Middle to Lower Mississippi Valley and Gulf Coast: Remnant smoke from the large number of agricultural burns over the region was seen over the Missouri Bootheel, eastern Arkansas, much of Louisiana, western Tennessee and much of Mississippi. The smoke was mainly light, although a narrow plume of moderate density smoke was seen from a multi-day fire in southwest Louisiana east of Lake Charles. Great Lakes to Mid Atlantic: An area of very thin smoke was seen stretching from the lower Great Lakes from southern Michigan across Lake Erie and northern Ohio southeastward across southwest Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia, Maryland, northern Virginia and Delaware. This is thought to be remnant smoke from the numerous agricultural fires in the northern Plains. Ruminski 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