Saturday, April 2, 2016

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z April 3, 2016

SMOKE:
Central and South Central US:
A tremendous concentration of seasonal fires were detected especially
across eastern and southeastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma which
resulted in a patch of moderately dense to locally thick smoke which
moved to the southeast during the day with the thinner density leading
edge reaching into southern Missouri and northern Arkansas.

JS

Earlier This Morning...
Gulf of Mexico/Bay of Campeche/Florida Straits/Southeast US Coast:
A very large area of mainly thin density smoke was visible spreading to
the north and northeast from the Bay of Campeche and the central Gulf of
Mexico along a frontal boundary. Clouds likely obscure some of the smoke,
especially across Florida though additional patches of thin remnant
smoke could be seen further northeast off the coast of the Southeast
US. The source of this smoke is the ongoing seasonal burning occurring
over portions of Mexico and Central America. Additional thin density
smoke was present just to the north of Cuba and off the southeast coast
of Florida with most of this smoke coming from fires in Cuba yesterday.

Caribbean:
An extremely large mass of thin to moderately dense smoke can be seen in
GOES imagery making its way westward and northwestward before starting
to turn to the north over the far western Caribbean. This smoke is coming
from significant fires in South America with the smoke being drawn north
towards the US ahead of the very deep upper level trough.

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.