DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0145Z October 16, 2011
Middle and Lower Mississippi Valley Region: A large number of fires were analyzed during the day in the region stretching from southeastern Missouri to south central Louisiana. Clear skies allowed for the detection of numerous relatively small thin density smoke plumes associated with these fires. Some of the smoke plumes combined into somewhat larger patches of thin density smoke. JS Earlier this Morning... South Texas: A broad area of thin density detached smoke is observed on visible satellite imagery this morning stretching from the northwest Houston suburbs west to San Marcos. The plume is generally moving in the northwest direction. The smoke originated from a moderate to heavy smoke producing fire in Cameron Parish, LA yesterday evening. The remnant smoke seen by yesterday's last light was over the Gulf of Mexico and approaching the Texas coast. The smoke has since been guided onshore by a surface high pressure system. 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