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