DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z May 4, 2011
Ohio Valley: An area of light remnant smoke was seen over the Ohio Valley from southern Illinois and southern Indiana across much of central Kentucky and north central Tennessee. This smoke is from the numerous agricultural fires that were observed yesterday from Kansas and western Missouri northward into western Minnesota and eastern North Dakota. Southeast Coast: Residual light smoke was seen extending from along much of the east coast of Florida northeastward to an area east of the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This smoke was being drawn northward ahead of a cold front moving across eastern North Carolina this morning. Eastern New Mexico: A narrow area of very thin remnant smoke was seen over eastern New Mexico. This is likely smoke from fires in west central New Mexico and Arizona yesterday. 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