DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z March 26, 2016
SMOKE: Gulf of Mexico/Bay of Campeche: Several areas of thin remnant smoke cover much of the Gulf of Mexico this morning stretching southward to Mexico's Bay of Campeche. Mostly dense cloud cover over the western Gulf likely obscures some smoke as well. Much of this smoke is from fires in Mexico over the past few days though smoke was also observed coming from the area of Cuba where a handful of fires were burning yesterday. Oklahoma/Kansas: A small patch of thin remnant smoke was seen moving east over south central/central Kansas and north central Oklahoma. This smoke may be from the Anderson Creek Fire or it may be from another fire in southwest Kansas that was producing a good deal of smoke yesterday. DUST: East Texas to Southern Illinois: Elevated dust/sand could be seen in morning imagery stretched from eastern Texas northeastward to southern Illinois. The dust/sand likely came from the White Sands National Monument in south central New Mexico and dry lake beds in Texas as well as dust in northwest New Mexico, northeast Arizona and Texas over the past several days. Sheffler 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