DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z April 1, 2015
SMOKE Central and Northern Plains/Midwest: A large pocket of light density smoke was seen at sunset moving northward from the Oklahoma into Kansas and Missouri. This smoke originates from the numerous amount of prescribed agricultural fires that have been taking place in the region the last 24 hours. Western Gulf of Mexico/Southern Plains: Smoke continues to be seen emitting from oil rigs in the Bay of Campeche extending northwest across the western Gulf of Mexico. Additional unknown aerosol may be mixed in with the smoke from the oil rig fire and agricultural burning which made its way north into Texas and Oklahoma this evening. DUST East Pacific: The extensive amount of Asian dust was present this morning across the eastern Pacific extending inland across California is still visible making way into the United States well into sunset. 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