DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z April 7, 2015
SMOKE Kansas: Cloudy conditions precluded fire and smoke detection over the Flint Hills of eastern Kansas for much of the day but skies cleared in late afternoon and revealed numerous fires with a few smoke plumes. The smoke was mostly moving to the north and northeast. Gulf of Mexico: Areas of light smoke from the agricultural burning in the Yucatan and adjoining areas of Mexico were seen over the southwest Gulf of Mexico. The smoke was mixing with emissions from the oil rigs in the same area of the southwestern Gulf. The whole mass was moving to the northwest and contributing to a general haziness over much of the western Gulf up to the Texas coast. Eastern Pacific: Broad areas of mostly light smoke from agricultural burning were also observed off the Pacific coast of southern Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador. The smoke was moving to the west. DUST Nebraska: A small area of aerosol, likely blowing dust, was seen over southwest Nebraska. The source appears to be near North Platte and it is moving to the southwest. New Mexico: An area of light blowing dust was seen originating from White Sands in south central New Mexico and moving to the northeast into southeast New Mexico. Colorado: A small area of very light blowing dust was coming from the Arkansas River basin in southeast Colorado and moving to the northeast into western Kansas. Southwest: An area of elevated light to moderately dense blowing dust was observed over the eastern Pacific off the coast of southern California from roughly Point Conception down to San Diego and spreading inland as far as southern Nevada and northwest Arizona. 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