DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z April 9, 2012
Florida: The large fire along the border of Columbia and Baker counties continues to emit dense smoke. Heavy smoke covered Columbia, Baker, Union and Alachua Counties in Florida along with Ware, Clinch, Charlton and Bacon Counties in Georgia. Dense smoke also moved eastward from the source over Jacksonville and into the Atlantic Ocean. Smoke from this fire also continued to reach northward into South Carolina. Kansas: Fires in the Kansas Flint Hills produced smoke this evening. This light smoke mainly moved to the north and approached the Nebraska/Kansas border by sunset. Myrga From earlier: Gulf of Mexico: There are two separate areas of detached smoke in the Gulf. Both of these areas are from the fire in northeastern Florida. One area is south of pan handle of Florida and the other is south of western Louisiana. The plume near Florida contains light to moderately dense smoke while the plume further west contains only light smoke. Salemi 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