DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0000Z March 28, 2012
Gulf of Mexico/Southeast/Mississippi Valley: An area of light to moderately dense residual smoke stretches across a large area of the southeast. Smoke extends from Florida westward to near Louisiana and as far north as central Alabama and into the northern sections of the Gulf of Mexico. Pockets of heavier smoke can be seen in southern Alabama and the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. Across the rest of the Southeast/Mississippi Valley, numerous fires are producing light to moderately dense smoke with a few emitting heavy smoke. Central Plains: Numerous fires are burning across the region with the most dense cluster extending across central/eastern Nebraska. Most of these fires are producing mostly light smoke. There is a small pocket of moderately dense smoke seen across northeast Nebraska moving toward the northeast and into northwest Missouri. 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