DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1730Z March 29, 2015
SMOKE Two areas of light remnant smoke were seen this morning in the Central Plains. One was over extreme southeast South Dakota, northeast Nebraska and into northwest Iowa. This smoke was moving to the east southeast. Another was seen over southwest Kansas and southeast Colorado early in the morning and moving south into the Texas/Oklahoma Panhandles. Clouds were between these two areas and precluded discerning whether the smoke areas were connected. This remnant smoke was likely from fires detected in south central Montana yesterday. There may also be some contribution from a large fire that developed overnight in western Nebraska northwest of North Platte. A plume of smoke was visible from this blaze through the morning hours and extending south to the Kansas border. DUST: Strong and gusty winds over the Central Plains were generating areas of blowing dust this morning. An area of light to moderately dense blowing dust was observed over southeast Colorado and moving to the south. The source was the loose soils mainly north of the Arkansas river and mostly east of La Junta to the Kansas border. The dust had reached the Oklahoma border by around noon. Another point source of a narrow plume of light blowing dust was detected over far northeast Colorado and was moving to the south southeast into extreme northwest Kansas. Ruminski 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