DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z April 28, 2014
DUST: Texas: Several plumes of blowing dust/sand were visible in satellite imagery this morning from Muleshoe, Texas as far south as Lamesa, Texas. The plumes were first visible at 1500Z moving eastward. Mississippi Valley/Southern Plains: A large area of blowing dust is visible in the greater Mississippi River Valley area this morning. Dust is visible moving NE in Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, eastern Oklahoma, and Texas. The dust is remnant from the large events that have been occuring in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas in the last 48 hours. It is also possible that the blowing dust is mixed with remnant smoke, due to the large amounts that have been traveling north from the western Gulf of Mexico in the last 24 hours. SMOKE: Western Gulf of Mexico : A large area of light-density remnant smoke is visible in the western Gulf of Mexico this morning ranging from the Yucatan Peninsula all the way up the coast of Mexico. The remnant smoke continues offshore of Texas and Louisiana as it swirls around the Gulf. Texas Coast: A large area of light-density remnant smoke is visible in SE Texas making its way off the coast into the western Gulf of Mexico. This smoke is remnant from the Texas fires occurring last night as well as the smoke coming up from the western Gulf of Mexico. Eastern Gulf of Mexico: A small plume of light-density smoke is visible off the coast of Cuba making its way NW past Key West, Florida. This remnant smoke is due to the ongoing agricultural burning in Cuba. AEROSOLS: Southeast: An area of unknown aerosols are visible off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia this morning moving SE into the Atlantic Ocean. The plume is first visible around 1300Z in GOES-E. Oegerle 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.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/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