DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0430Z October 6, 2011
North Central US/South Central Canada: Dozens of small agricultural burns mixed in with a few large wildfires are scattered throughout the Dakotas, Minnesota, southern Manitoba, and eastern Saskatchewan. Fires are most densely concentrated near the North Dakota-Manitoba border and in eastern Saskatchewan. Smoke mainly appears as elongated moderate density plumes that are moving due north. Thin density remnant smoke encompasses the eastern and central Dakotas and the southern half of Manitoba. A small contribution of remnant smoke in this area is also from fires in Nebraska and Kansas, whose smoke is swept north in the southerly flow. Lower Mississippi Valley/Southeast US Remnant thin density smoke covers parts of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and much of eastern Arkansas and southeast Missouri. Plumes near the sources of the fires are moderate in density but disperse quickly with distance away from the source. Additionally, smoke continues to be produced from a wildfire near the Okefenokee Swamp in southeast Georgia. Ramirez THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME DETACHED FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE..TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ARE ALSO DESCRIBED. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF THESE AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO THE SOURCE FIRE 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 ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov