DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0140Z February 12, 2015
South-Central/Southeastern U.S: A multitude of agricultural fires are occurring throughout the southeastern U.S that are producing mostly light density smoke, specifically in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Missouri, and eastern Texas. Many fires in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi are producing smoke plumes that are moving to the southeast, and fires in Louisiana and Texas are producing smoke plumes that are moving to the north-northeast. There also is a larger area of light density remnant smoke remaining over northern Texas, Oklahoma, and western/central Arkansas. This smoke is leftover from agricultural fires that occurred in the region yesterday. Gulf of Mexico: An area of mostly thin density remnant smoke is drifting over northern and northwestern portions of the Gulf of Mexico. This is remnant smoke from agricultural burning occurring throughout the southeastern U.S. yesterday. Heeps 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