DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0400Z November 11, 2016
SMOKE... Central and Southern Appalachians/Southeastern US... Wildfires across eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina, and northern Georgia continued to burn and emit a significant amount of smoke through the day which began moving more in a southeast direction by late in the afternoon. The thinner density surrounding large region of smoke stretched well down into Georgia and northwestern South Carolina while moderately dense to locally thick smoke was present especially over northern Georgia and western North Carolina. Southeastern Missouri/Eastern Arkansas... Once again, numerous seasonal agricultural fires were detected over southeastern Missouri and eastern Arkansas resulting in many individual thin density smoke plumes which moved to the northeast during the afternoon with some of the plumes congealing into larger patches of thin density smoke. North Dakota/Northwestern Minnesota/South Central Canada... A very large number of seasonal agricultural fires were analyzed across far northwestern Minnesota, much of North Dakota, and across the border into portions of southern Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba in south central Canada. Numerous thin density smoke plumes were visible with these fires with most of the smoke spreading rapidly to the southeast during the afternoon. Pacific Northwest/Southwestern Canada... Not nearly as many smoke plumes were visible over the Northwestern US and in British Columbia and Alberta in southwestern Canada as in recent days due to cloudiness spreading over part of this area. JS Earlier This Morning... Central and Southern Appalachians/Southeast... Numerous attached smoke plumes were seen at first light from active wildfires burning across the region. Multiple wildfires had moderate to high density smoke downwind of the fire with a light density detached area of smoke further into Georgia. Another area of light density smoke was seen stretching from the central/northeast Gulf of Mexico across Florida into the Atlantic. This detached area of smoke was slowly moving south along a frontal boundary and also wrapping into a storm system off the Carolina coast. JRM 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