DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2330Z March 08, 2013
Eastern Gulf/Florida Coast: Thin to moderate smoke from numerous agricultural and prescribed burns across the FL panhandle, SW GA and SE AL from last night moved South then Southeast into the NE Gulf of Mexico this morning into this evening. High level cirrus has begun to overrun this area making detection difficult, but the leading edge appears to be moderate in density and extends along a NW to SE line from 27N87.5W to 25N86W moving SW. Moderately dense smoke extends back NE from this line about 150km around 27N86.2W but then thins out a bit but still traceable back to about 84W just west of Tampa Bay. US Southeast: Numerous agricultural and prescribed burns continue across AL, GA, SC and N FL... these fires are producing copious amounts of thin smoke with isolated fires producing moderate to dense smoke. Much of the US Southeast is covered with this low to midlevel smoke. Please see link below for graphical or GIS depiction of these plumes. Gallina Earlier today... this region has become obscured by clouds making detection impossible. Central US: Two isolated areas of light smoke were seen in early morning imagery. The first was located over south-central Arkansas and the other extended from northeastern Arkansas northwest to central Missouri. These are likely composed of remnant smoke from the numerous agricultural burns throughout the southeast and lower Mississippi Valley yesterday. -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