Tuesday, April 26, 2011

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0140Z April 27, 2011

Smoke...
Texas into the Western/Central Gulf of Mexico:
A large area of mostly light (with more localized moderate to dense
smoke over southern portions of Texas) can be seen through the western
portion of the Gulf of Mexico and stretching back into western Texas in
this evening's imagery. Most of the smoke that is across southwestern
and central Gulf of Mexico is likely attributed to numerous fires
burning across eastern Mexico and Central America. The further north
and across Texas/northeast Mexico smoke is likely from a combination of
fires mentioned above and several large wildfires that continue to burn
across northeast Mexico and central/western Texas.

Blowing Dust...
Northern Mexico/Southern New Mexico/Western and Central Texas:
Large area of blowing dust is seen stretching across portions of northern
Mexico/much of southern New Mexico (south of 32 degrees north latitude)
and is moving east across western/central Texas.  This is seen mixing
with large area of smoke across western/central Texas.

Eastern New Mexico/West-Central Texas:
An area of blowing dust that appears to be originating along the
Curry/Roosevelt county border in eastern New Mexico is moving to the
southeast into potions of west-central Texas.

North-Central to East-Central Arizona:
An elongated dust plume is seen moving south-southeast from north-central
Arizona into portions of east-central Arizona this evening.  Blowing dust
appears to be originating from eastern Coconino county.


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.

ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THESE CHANGES OR THE SMOKE TEXT
PRODUCT IN GENERAL SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.