DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z March 24, 2011
Midwest: Agricultural fires were abundant throughout Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas today. These fires produced numerous smoke plumes, which generally moved to the southeast. Satellite imagery over eastern Oklahoma showed large areas of smoke. Mexico: Fires burning in state of Coahuila in Mexico were producing smoke that approached the Rio Grande River and the the Texas border this evening along Val Verde County. Myrga From earlier today: Southeast Coast: Again today, another large area of remnant smoke from the numerous fires burning throughout the southeast remains off the southwest coast from Florida northward through the Carolinas. Western Gulf of Mexico: A large area of light smoke can be seen stretching northward towards the Louisiana and Texas coastlines in the western Gulf of Mexico. Numerous fires through Mexico and Central America as well as burning from oil rigs through the Bay of Campeche have contributed to this large area of smoke. Southern Nevada/Southwest Utah: A small area of blowing dust originating from near Coyote Springs, NV is moving to the northeast into portions of southwest Utah. Belge 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