DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1615Z April 15, 2015
SMOKE: Northern Plains: Two areas of thin density remnant smoke plumes are seen drifting northward, one encompasses portions of eastern South and North Dakota along the border of Minnesota, with the second area across portions of north-central Minnesota. Both areas of remnant smoke are believed to have originated from the central plains. DUST: Southwest US: An area of remnant blowing dust leftover from last evenings haboob event that originated in central Nevada is observed in early morning visible satellite imagery as an elongated feature stretching from south-central Colorado, northwestern New Mexico across central Arizona to the border of Arizona and southern California. The blowing dust signature also shows up very well in the visible channel of NOAA-15 polar orbiting satellite at 1349 UTC. Warren 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