Friday, May 6, 2011

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z May 6, 2011

Upper Mississippi River Valley:
An elongated, north-south oriented area of unknown origin is seen
tracking eastward from the Upper Mississippi River Valley towards Lake
Michigan/Illinois/Indiana in first few visible images of GOES-West.

New Mexico/W. Texas:
Remnant smoke is seen in morning satellite imagery tracking east-southeast
across southern portions of New Mexico towards western Texas.  Smoke
likely originated from large wildfire that has been burning for several
days across portions of northern Grant county in southwestern New Mexico.

Eastern Texas/S. Arkansas/Louisiana/Mississippi:
Area of remnant smoke seen stretched across portions of eastern
Texas/southern Arkansas/Louisiana/Mississippi this morning.  Remnant smoke
appears to be along and ahead of a stalled frontal boundary draped across
the region and is slowly drifting eastward.

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.