DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z October 19, 2012
Southern Plains to Tennessee Valley: Blowing dust from the massive dust storm in the central Plains states yesterday afternoon and evening has circulated in a counterclockwise fashion around a large low pressure system near Chicago this morning. The dust now extends from northeast Texas and along the Arkansas/Louisiana border and then curls to the northeast across northern Mississippi and Alabama, across much of Tennessee and eastern Kentucky. The dust may extend a bit further to the north but extensive clouds associated with the storm system hinder detection over the Ohio Valley. New Mexico/Texas: Remnant smoke from a fire just southwest of Los Alamos was slowly drifting to the east and extended from southeast New Mexico into adjoining areas of west Texas near Midland. The smoke was mainly light density with a couple of patches of moderately dense smoke. 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