DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0015Z March 14, 2011
Southeast Atlantic Coast to Mid-Atlantic Coast: The elongated patch of light smoke seen this morning extending from the southeast and mid Atlantic coast to the northeast had moved little by sunset. The smoke was thin and likely remnant smoke from mostly agricultural fires over the southeast and the central Plains the past couple of days. Numerous fires over South Carolina and Georgia this afternoon/evening were producing another round of smoke cover a broad area of the region and mainly moving to the northeast. Florida/Bahamas/Cuba A patch of light smoke was drifting westward across the Florida Keys and into the eastern Gulf. This is likely remnant smoke from fires burning in the Bahamas. Additional fires were burning on several of the Bahama Island this afternoon/evening and another surge of light to moderately dense smoke was moving to the west toward southeast Florida and the Florida Straight. Fires burning across Cuba were generating light to moderately dense smoke which was mostly drifting to the southwest into the northwest Caribbean. Southwest Gulf of Mexico: Smoke from the oil rigs in the Bay of Campeche was seen extending from the source toward the northwest where it mixed with clouds off the south coast of Texas. 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. 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