DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1615Z May 8, 2011
East of Coastal North Carolina/Western Atlantic: An area of moderately dense remnant smoke is seen moving to the southeast of 75 degrees west longitude. Smoke is likely from a large wildfire that has been burning in the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge along the Hyde/Dare county line in eastern North Carolina (also known as the Pains Bay wildfire). Southeastern US/Southwestern Atlantic: Moderately dense remnant smoke observed moving to the east-southeast of coastal South Carolina/coastal and southeastern Georgia/east coast of Florida. Majority of this smoke is likely from a large wildfire burning in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Georgia near the Florida border (also known as the Honey Prairie wildfire). Area of remnant smoke has moved south and east from where is was located during the previous day. Smoke can be seen extending across the southwestern Atlantic beyond 68 degrees west longitude. Southwestern and South Central US: Morning GOES-WEST visible satellite imagery shows large area of remnant smoke across portions of eastern New Mexico/southeastern Colorado/southwest Kansas/Oklahoma/northern and central Texas/Arkansas/southern Missouri with embedded areas of moderately dense smoke. Embedded areas of moderately dense smoke were seen over northern panhandle of Texas/western Oklahoma/southwestern Kansas, over north-central Oklahoma and then last area is across central Arkansas. Smoke is likely attributed to several fires that were burning yesterday across Oklahoma in addition to a handful of large wildfires that have been burning across northern Texas/southern New Mexico for the past few days. 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