DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0245Z April 15, 2015
SMOKE: US Central Plains Numerous agricultural burns throughout the central plains are likely responsible for a general haziness seen between breaks in cloud cover. It's largely not possible to identify individual smoke plumes, except in areas of central Kansas and Nebraska and southern Minnesota which are less obscured. The area of remnant light smoke is analyzed over eastern Kansas stretching northeast to the Minnesota-Wisconsin border. Also, there is a large wildfire located in the southwest corner of South Dakota that is producing light to moderate smoke in the northern direction, reaching southern North Dakota through sunset. DUST: A haboob is observed originating in central Nevada around 2000Z then moving south over Nevada, southeast California, and northwest Arizona through sunset (0145Z). Several dry lake beds in southern California are also contributing to the dust. Ramirez 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