DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0045Z March 15, 2012
Florida: An area of detached smoke from fires earlier in the day was seen moving to the west off the southwest coast of Florida. The likely source was numerous agricultural fires around Lake Okeechobee. Eastern Carolinas: Several areas of detached remnant light to moderately dense smoke from fires earlier in the day were seen from the lower Outer Banks southward to near the Charleston South Carolina area. The smoke was drifting offshore to the east and southeast. Western Great Lakes: A very thin area of remnant smoke from the numerous agricultural fires in the Central Plains from yesterday was seen drifting northeast across the western Great Lakes. West Texas and Oklahoma: An area of light blowing dust was observed over West Texas in the vicinity of Lubbock and extending to the northeast over the eastern Texas Panhandle into western Oklahoma. Ruminski 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