DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1500Z April 15, 2012
Western Gulf of Mexico: Remnant light smoke from the seasonal agricultural burning in southeast Mexico and Central America was seen this morning over the western Gulf of Mexico, mainly west of 94W. This smoke area was likely also being drawn further northward into eastern Texas and western Louisiana ahead of a cold front but cloud cover was inhibiting detection. Central and Southern Plains: Remnant blowing dust from yesterday's large event has been lofted and is seen stretching from the Big Bend area of Texas north northeastward through central Texas and Oklahoma into eastern Kansas, eastern Nebraska and western Iowa. This dust area then becomes obscured in cloud cover. At 1500Z the back edge of the dust was roughly along a line from San Angelo Texas to Alton and Clinton Oklahoma to Salina Kansas to Hebron and Wayne Nebraska. Strong winds gusting over 40 mph in western Texas behind a frontal system are kicking up new areas of fresh blowing dust. Moderately dense dust from approximately along a line from Seminole to Lubbock to Plainview to Canadian Texas. This area of dust was moving to the east. 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