DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z May 3, 2011
Missouri/Illinois: An area of very light remnant smoke was seen drifting to the southeast across portions of central Missouri into central Illinois. This is likely from numerous agricultural fires over the Central and Northern Plains yesterday. Gulf of Mexico: An area of mostly light smoke was seen drifting to the west northwest and then turning to the north over the eastern Gulf of Mexico from an active fire in southwest Florida in Collier county. The smoke extends to the west from the fire and then lifts north toward the gulf coast along the Florida panhandle. A separate area of remnant smoke over the south central Gulf off the northeast tip of the Yucatan was likely from fires in Cuba. Extensive cloud cover over the western Gulf off the Texas coast is precluding smoke detection in this area, although it is likely that there is remnant smoke from the numerous fires across Mexico and Central America. 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. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THESE CHANGES OR THE SMOKE TEXT PRODUCT IN GENERAL SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov