DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0000Z May 01, 2014
Currently: Southern California/Baha California: A large area of dust/blowing sand can be seen in GOES-13 imagery moving WSW off the southern California/northern Baha California coast. Another area is seen blowing south from the California/Baha border in to the northern/central regions of the California Sea. This combines with the smoke from the large wildfire burning in NW Baha and producing moderately dense to dense smoke moving WSW well into the Pacific Ocean. Central/Southern Plains: A narrow area of blowing dust/sand can be seen moving south across SE Colorado and extending into the Oklahoma/Texas Panhandle. East Central Texas/Central Louisiana: Numerous fires burning across the region are producing very large smoke plumes of moderately dense to some dense smoke moving southeast. Most of the Mississippi Valley/Southeast is covered in thick clouds. J Kibler Earlier Today: Smoke: Light residual smoke from fires in Mexico and Central America was streaming northward across the central Gulf of Mexico. Dust: An area of Saharan dust was moving through the Caribbean, including the vicinity of Puerto Rico. 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