DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z November 15, 2010
Southeast US coast: An area of thin remnant smoke was present off the southeast US coast this evening. Most of this smoke likely originated from fires in the southeast US and lower Mississippi River valley over the past few days, including the wildfire still burning in Clinch County, Georgia. That fire was producing additional thin to moderately dense smoke today. Southern California/Northern Baja: A thin aerosol believed to be smoke from fires in north and central California over the past few days could be seen accumulating over the southern part of the San Joaquin Valley. Further south over northern Baja, Mexico a plume of blowing sand could be seen extending southeastward into the northern Gulf of California. South Texas coast: An unknown aerosol was seen this evening off the southern Texas coast lifting northward with a low pressure system. This aerosol could be smoke from the oil rigs in the Gulf of Campeche or it could be other aerosols. Hawaii: Volcanic SO2 from Kilauea could be seen this evening drifting away from the Big Island to the west and becoming entrained by a number of small vorticies just south of the island chain. 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. THE SMOKE TEXT PRODUCT IN GENERAL SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THESE CHANGES OR THE SMOKE TEXT PRODUCT IN GENERAL SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov