DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0215Z May 22 2013
Smoke: There has been little change with the smoke transported from Mexico/Central America which spread over the western Gulf of Mexico and inland over Texas and the South Central US, then to the northeast across the Mid Mississippi Valley and Ohio Valley to off the Northeast US coast. For more details see the write up from earlier this morning below... Dust: Several swaths of blowing dust were visible moving to the east and northeast from sources over south central Oregon, far northeastern California, and northwestern and west central Nevada. One particular area of blowing dust originating from a dry lake bed in Churchill County of west central Nevada was very thick in density. The thick dust plume reached far northeastern Nevada and southern Idaho just prior to sunset. JS Earlier This Morning... Smoke: Southern Great Plains/Western Gulf: Moderately dense smoke can be seen built up in the warm sector (particularly along and ahead of the dryline) in central TX... this is continued streaming smoke from agricultural fires across Southern Mexico and Northern Central America, though the streamer of smoke is a bit narrower today, extending from the Sierra Madre Oriental only out to around 95W...though a newer bulk south of the US/Mexico line is surging north across the Bay of Campeche between the Mexican coast and 90W. Cloud cover across N Tx and OK obscure this moderately dense smoke, but breaks in the clouds show it extending NE across MO/IL/W KY (see below). A very thin veil of smoke could be seen cover N OK and central KS as well. Great Lakes into S New England/Atlantic: Thin smoke streaming from the SW covers a large portion of the Great Lakes (IN/OH/MI) into NY, and southern New England. Gallina THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF 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