DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0115Z April 23, 2016
SMOKE: Gulf of Mexico There was a relatively small area of light remnant smoke from the seasonal burning in Mexico and Central America that was seen drifting east across the southeast Gulf of Mexico toward southwest Florida, including the Keys. Eastern Kansas A tremendous number of fires in the Flint Hills of eastern Kansas were producing a broad area of light to moderately dense smoke with a few patches of dense smoke over eastern Kansas into northeast Oklahoma. Central and Northern Plains A large number of fires were detected over eastern Nebraska, the eastern Dakotas, Iowa and Minnesota this afternoon and evening. These fires were producing numerous, mostly small and light density smoke plumes over the region. DUST: Strong winds ahead of a potent storm system were kicking up a couple of plumes of blowing dust in southern Nevada. The dust was seen in eastern Nye and western Lincoln counties and moving north. 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