DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z February 27, 2012
Ohio River Valley: A lightly-dense remnant smoke plume was seen drifting slowly eastward across portions of the Ohio River Valley this morning. Smoke extends from western Ohio back to the southwest across southern Indiana, western Kentucky, southern Illinois, south-eastern Missouri, southwestern Tennessee and over northeastern Arkansas. Area of smoke is likely from several fires that were seen burning yesterday across portions of Arkansas, Mississippi and Missouri. Furthermore, some remnant dust particles from the dust storm two days ago originating from western Kansas/panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas may be getting mixed in with this area of remnant smoke along its western edge. 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