DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z April 5, 2013
Central US: A large number of fires were analyzed during the day stretching from eastern Nebraska and eastern Kansas to northern Indiana with numerous accompanying individual smoke plumes seen in visible satellite imagery. Some of the smoke plumes over southeastern Nebraska, eastern Kansas, far southwestern Iowa, and northern Missouri combined to form a somewhat larger area of thin density smoke which covered the region and drifted to the south and southeast during the afternoon. Gulf of Mexico: Thin density smoke from the seasonal fires in southeastern Mexico and Central America appeared to spread northward during the day over the eastern Bay of Campeche into the south central Gulf of Mexico along and ahead of a frontal boundary moving across the Gulf of Mexico. Southeastern US: Widespread cloudiness covered the Southeastern US greatly limiting fire and smoke detection in satellite imagery in that region. JS 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