DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z April 12, 2012
Southeast US/Mid-Atlantic Coast: The County Line wildfire in Columbia County, FL is primarily responsible for an extensive area of detached thin density smoke that covers Atlantic waters east of Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas. Moderate and heavy smoke remains confined to NE Florida and the oceanic area to the east. Central and Northern Plains: Numerous small smoke producing agricultural burns in the central and northern plains have collectively created a large area of light density remnant smoke over the eastern Dakotas, Nebraska, and Kansas and over western Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri. From this morning- The Gulf of Mexico appears a bit hazy which might be due to some remnant smoke still lingering across the northern half of the gulf, but no real well-defined boundaries can be noted to be able to analyze. Update- The same unknown aerosol was observed this evening and is deemed to contain only a small smoke aerosol contribution, if any. Ramirez 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