DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0115Z March 10, 2013
Dust/Sand: W Texas Panhandle/N Chihuahua: Sand/dust from the high deserts around Laguna Guzman in northern Chihuahua is becoming airborne under strong westerly winds and thin density can be seen through broken clouds extending ENEward into the western TX panhandle and toward the SW corner of NM. In the low levels/through the Mtn canyons, it appears over the last few images there is thin dust/sand moving SSE behind a leading outflow/haboob line? As far south as Ruidosa toward Presidio along the Rio Grande R. New Mexico/W Texas A line of thin dust/sand likely from White Sands as well as loose soils east of Roswell are being blow ENE between Clovis and Lovington, NM and as far NE as Lubbock, TX Texas/Oklahoma Panhandles and SW Kansas: A very thin ribbon of thin suspended soils that is oriented SW to NE in advance of eastern line of clouds (near the upper level low over SW CO) extends from just east of Dalhart, TX to just NE of Dodge City, KS. This is basically along US-56... but is on average about 15km wide. Norther Utah: Salt and soils from north of Great Salt Lake are thin to moderately dense covering the northern half of the Lake moving due south. Further west, the sand/salt from the Great Salt Lake Desert is producing thin to moderate dense sand storm that is moving due south, it is particularly dense along the western periphery of the salt flats/desert along the UT/NV state line extending about 50 to 100km south. Nevada: The dry lakes just E of Silver Peak, NV (central Esmeralda county) is producing moderate to dense blown dust/sand that is moving SE about to Beatty, NV in southern Nye county and is on average about 20km wide. Thin to moderately dense sand/dust from the Humbolt Dry Lake bed, along the Humboldt and Churchill county line, is moving due south in a 5-10 km wide line along US-95 south of Fallon, NV Gallina 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