DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z March 28, 2016

SMOKE:
Nebraska/Iowa Border:
A small patch of smoke could be seen moving eastward across southeast
Nebraska towards the Iowa border. This smoke appears to have come from
fires in central and eastern Nebraska yesterday.

Gulf of Mexico/Bay of Campeche:
With much of the Gulf of Mexico covered by  broken cloud cover, some
smoke could be seen across the central and western Gulf of Mexico along
with within the Bay of Campeche. This remnant thin smoke is mostly from
fires in Mexico and other nearby countries of Central America.

DUST:
Central and Northern Plains/Midwest/Great Lakes:
An area of an elevated aerosol was observed over the Central and Northern
Plains. It is difficult to determine its full extent due to the diffuse
nature of the aerosol and clouds obscuring parts of the Midwest and
exiting the Intermountain West though. The aerosol is thought to be
elevated dust particles, possibly originating from Asia based on back
trajectories of aerosol models. It stretches approximately from north
Arkansas/north Oklahoma northward to the Dakotas/western and central
Minnesota, and across Lake Superior over southern Ontario.

UNKNOWN AEROSOL:
Texas/Oklahoma:
An aerosol is observed over parts of Oklahoma southward and southeastward
across Texas. This aerosol could be elevated dust or remnant smoke or
a mix of the two. This aerosol extended into the far northwest Gulf of
Mexico where some of the aerosol was analyzed as remnant smoke yesterday.

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

Unless otherwise indicated:

Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.

Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.

A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.

Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.