DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z October 11, 2010
Gulf Coast/Florida/Southeast US Coast: An area of thin remnant smoke from the numerous ag burns that have been going on along the Mississippi River and the Gulf Coast was observed today over the north central and northeast Gulf of Mexico, northern Florida, and along and off the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina. Mid Atlantic Coast: A frontal boundary draped east to west across the northern Mid-Atlantic region has kept a large amount of thin to moderate density smoke and possibly other unknown aerosols just to its south. Most of this remnant smoke originated from the fires in the northern US Plains and south central Canada and has traveled east and southeast over the past few days. Illinois/Missouri/Indiana: A small amount of thin smoke could be seen in GOES-W imagery this morning traveling northeast across southeast Missouri, south Illinois, and towards southwest Indiana. Likely this smoke is from the ag burns along the Mississippi River yesterday. Dakotas/Minnesota/Manitoba: Two patches of very thin remnant smoke, one over the Minnesota/North Dakota/Manitoba border and the other over southern South Dakota/southern Minnesota, likely came from the same source, the ag fires yesterday in the Dakotas and south central Canada. The one over South Dakota/Minnesota is being pulled southward by an upper low over the Central US Plains. 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