DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0332Z October 20, 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 extends at sunset from northern Louisiana through south central Mississippi and then turns northeast around the low into central Alabama and northern Georgia and into eastern Tennessee and the western North and South Carolina and Virginia. 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 continued to drift eastward and was located over central Texas at sunset. The smoke was mainly light density with a couple of patches of moderately dense smoke. Liddick 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