DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z April 11, 2015
SMOKE Central US: A tremendous number of agricultural/prescribed burns in Kansas and Oklahoma have generated a broad area of light to moderately dense smoke over the region. Montana: A large fire in eastern Montana just west of Jordan was producing a plume of light to moderately dense smoke that was moving to the northeast and crossed the border into southern Saskatchewan. Several agricultural burns throughout the central plains, and a few larger active fires in central eastern Kansas are collectively producing a broad area of very light density smoke. Arizona: A fire in central Arizona near Sedona had a plume of light to moderately dense smoke that was moving to the northeast into northeast Arizona. Gulf of Mexico: A broad area of light smoke was detected over the southwest Gulf of Mexico due to the seasonal burning in Central America. The smoke was generally moving in a northwest direction but clouds in the northwest Gulf hindered determining how far the smoke extended. 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