DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1615Z October 19, 2014
Western Atlantic/Florida/Northern Gulf of Mexico/Southeast and Central Texas: A thin aerosol can be seen in morning GOES imagery stretching along a frontal boundary that is off the coast of the southeastern US, across Florida, and over the northern Gulf of Mexico. The aerosol becomes more difficult to distinguish over the northwestern Gulf but some haziness over southeast and central Texas mixed with pockets of clouds suggests that it extends overland. It is most prevalent over the western Atlantic and the northeast Gulf, both areas of which may contain some smoke from recent southeast/southern US fires. Otherwise the aerosol content is largely unknown. Sheffler 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