DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0145Z March 13, 2011
Central Plains through Southern Mid-Atlantic: A large area of light smoke is seen extending from central Oklahoma eastward through southern Missouri/northern Arkansas/northern Mississippi and northern Alabama/Tennessee/southern Kentucky and across majority of North Carolina and Virginia. Plume does extending to just off the coast of NC and VA. Source of smoke appears to be connected to numerous wildfires and agricultural burns seen across Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas that have been burning for a few days now. Some of the larger smoke producing fires are seen burning across eastern Oklahoma. Northeastern Gulf of Mexico: An area of remnant light to moderately dense smoke continues to track northward across the northeastern Gulf of Mexico this evening. Northern portions of this plume are seen moving across portions of the western Florida panhandle in this evening's satellite imagery. Warren 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