DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0145Z April 22, 2016
SMOKE: Northern Plains An area of what is believed to be remnant smoke, possibly from the burning observed over the northern Rockies the past few days, was seen drifting to the southeast across the western Dakotas and over southeast Saskatchewan this evening. Gulf of Mexico Remnant smoke was seen over much of the western third of the Gulf of Mexico. The smoke did not reach as far north as southwest Louisiana or the upper coast of Texas due to a northerly flow of air into the northwest Gulf. Kansas Smoke from numerous fires in the Flint Hills of eastern Kansas has congealed into a larger mass of light to moderately dense smoke this evening that stretched from the fires in east central Kansas into southwest Missouri. Mid Atlantic Coast A fire over extreme eastern North Carolina was generating a light to moderately dense plume of smoke that was moving to the east and fanning out. Maine A blaze in Downeast Maine was generating a light smoke plume that extended to the east nearly reaching the southwest tip of Nova Scotia by sunset. Pennsylvania Light smoke from a fire in northeast Pennsylvania extended to the northeast into southern New York. East Pacific A large area of light to moderately dense smoke from the large number of fires in Central America was seen off the Pacific coast of southern Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua and extended well to the west into the Pacific. Ruminski 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