DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1745Z April 26, 2016
SMOKE: Southern Plains: Several patches of thin smoke could be seen between cloud cover over portions of central/northern Texas and southwest/central Oklahoma. This smoke is likely remnant and has moved north from Mexico over the past few days. Bay of Campeche/Gulf of Mexico: A large area of thin to moderately dense smoke can be seen in GOES imagery spreading northward from the Bay of Campeche and the Yucatan Peninsula region across the western and central Gulf of Mexico. Fires in Mexico/Central America over the past few days are responsible for this smoke. In addition, several small patches of thin remnant smoke can be seen moving west-northwest from western Cuba and is likely from fires there yesterday. Mid-Atlantic Coast/Southern New England Coast: An area of remnant smoke was moving eastward to the south of a frontal boundary along the coast of southern New England. The smoke extended from off the coast of Maryland/Delaware northeast along the New Jersey/New York/Southern New England coastline. The smoke may be from fires yesterday in the Southeast US. DUST: Western Texas to Central Kansas: Elevated dust could be seen this morning in GOES-W imagery from west Texas and the Texas Panhandle northeastward across western Oklahoma to western/central Kansas. This dust was lifted from the deserts of the southwestern US/northern Mexico yesterday and is was mixing with remnant smoke over central Texas. Missouri/Illinois: An aerosol that is believed to be dust could be seen over Missouri/Illinois. This dust is also likely from the southwest US. 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