DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z May 22 2013
***GOES-13 (GOES-EAST) OUTAGE. Status updates can be found at www.ospo.noaa.gov*** Western Gulf of Mexico/Texas: A large area of moderately dense smoke can be seen across the Bay of Campeche/SW Gulf of Mexico originating from numerous large agricultural fires across the Yucatan and Northern Central America. This smoke is moving north and thins out to light density across the NW Gulf into Coastal Texas. The area is bound by the Sierra Madre Oriental on the west and approx. 93W on the eastern side. Oegerle/Gallina Areas described earlier this morning: Southern Arizona: Relatively small and elongated plume of remnant smoke is seen tracking toward the east across southwest to south-central Arizona. Smoke is believed to be from a fire analyzed yesterday that was located in northern Baja California. Texas: Area of thin-density remnant smoke is observed across portions of southern Texas. Smoke originated from Mexico/Central America and has traveled north across western Gulf of Mexico into southern Texas. Ohio River Valley: Considerable cloudiness east of the Mississippi River, however area of remnant thin-density smoke could be seen in GOES-WEST over eastern Ohio, eastern Kentucky, western West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania. Nevada/Idaho/Utah: Remnant dust plume seen this morning from yesterday's blowing dust event that originated from Nevada and is now stretched across northeast Nevada/southeast Idaho/northwest Utah. Alaska: Unknown aerosol of thin-density is seen stretching south to north across portions of eastern Alaska. Warren 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