DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z February 28, 2012
Southwestern US/Southern Plains/Northern Mexico: Multiple areas of sand/dust are blowing east NE across a large section of central/eastern New Mexico, western Texas, Oklahoma/Texas Panhandles, southeast Colorado and southwest Kansas. The largest area of sand/dust seen is coming from the White Sands region in south-central New Mexico. A few areas in Northern Mexico just south of the New Mexico border are blowing sand/dust into southeast New Mexico and into western Texas. The windy conditions causing the blowing sand/dust are associated with a front moving through the Colorado/New Mexico region. Otherwise, a large area of cloudiness covers most of the central US, southeast, the Rockies and moving into the Pacific Northwest. J Kibler 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