DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0245Z April 07, 2011
Central Plains: Numerous fires burning today across central/eastern Kansas and into northern/central Oklahoma produced a large area of light smoke that extends throughout that region. Some moderate to heavy smoke embedded within the lighter smoke can be seen near the central KS/OK border. A frontal boundary is currently placed across southeast Kansas and central Oklahoma which is allowing for northwesterly flow behind the front where the smoke is moving mostly to the south and east and a southwesterly flow ahead of the front where the smoke from central Oklahoma is moving northeastward into portions of Missouri. Western Texas: Large fires today in west Texas produced very large smoke plumes that quickly traveled eastward due to the high winds in that region. One fire in particular near Aspermont, TX (about 175 miles to the northwest of Fort Worth, TX) produced a very large and dense smoke plume that traveled all the way to about Lake Texoma on the TX/OK border. Southern Texas/Western Gulf of Mexico/Lower Mississippi Valley: The large fires continued to burn today through northern Coahuila, Mexico and produce heavy smoke that traveled eastward into southern Texas. There is also a rather large area of remnant light smoke that was seen in this morning's imagery that has since moved eastward and is now located through eastern Texas and into parts of northwest Louisiana and southern/central Arkansas. Southeast US: Numerous fires today throughout Georgia, the Carolinas and Alabama produced many smoke plumes moving to the north. Some in Alabama and southern Mississippi produced plumes that traveled about 100 miles or more from their point source. Belge Earlier Today: East Coast USA: An area of light remnant smoke was seen moving east off east coast US. The smoke stretched from Cape Hatteras to Cape Cod. This remnant smoke can be attributed to the wildfires burning over northern Coahulia, Mexico and the numerous agricultural fires across the Central Plains. Earle 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