DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z April 1, 2012
Western Gulf of Mexico: Area of light residual smoke from fires in Central America was observed moving north through the western Gulf of Mexico. Mississippi Valley: A large area of light residual smoke from yesterday's extensive agricultural burns across the central Plains stretched from the Minnesota-Canadian border south through Iowa, Missouri, and Arkansas. NRL/Monterey Aerosol Modeling suggests that dust may also be contributing to this haze. Southern California/Arizona/Nevada/Utah/Southeast Idaho: Large areas of dust cover portions of southern California, northeast Arizona, much of Nevada and northwest Utah. Dust is particularly dense across north and west central Nevada, northwestern Utah and southeastern Idaho. Nebraska/Kansas/Oklahoma: As was the case yesterday, numerous agricultural burns centered in Kansas have resulted in light to isolated moderate smoke plumes that have moved generally towards the north and northeast. From earlier today... Southern/Central Mississippi Valley: An area of light, remnant smoke can be seen extending across eastern Oklahoma into southern Missouri, northern Arkansas and into extreme western portions of Tennessee and Kentucky. This is likely due to the numerous agricultural burns that were seen yesterday across this region and the central Plains. Another area of embedded heavy smoke within the aforementioned larger area is seen across north/central Arkansas. This particular area looks to have been remnant from a large fire that was burning yesterday and last night through central Arkansas. Belge 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