DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1545Z February 26, 2012
Central Plains: An area of remnant light to moderately-dense smoke is observed tracking east-northeast across portions of southeastern and eastern Missouri, nearly the entire state of Illinois, western Indiana, southeastern Wisconsin, and extreme southwestern Michigan just after sunrise this morning. This area of remnant smoke is believed to be from several late-evening fires that were analyzed yesterday across northwestern Arkansas. Two areas of blowing dust are also seen across portions of the Central Plains. A rather large area of blowing dust was observed yesterday across western Kansas, southwest Nebraska and the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas. One of the remnant blow dust plumes is elongated and oriented southwest to northeast and is seen drifting eastward across north-central and central Missouri. The second and larger of the two remnant dust plumes is very slowly drifting eastward across central to south-central Kansas into portions of north-central Oklahoma. Warren 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