DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1830Z 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 morning. Numerous attached smoke plumes were seen at first light from the aforementioned wildfires. Multiple wildfires had moderate density smoke downwind of the fire with an area of light density smoke stretching into northeast Florida and along coastal sections of Georgia. Another area of light density remnant smoke was located across the Virginia/North Carolina border region spreading northeast toward extreme southeast Canada. This area of smoke may be from agricultural burning across the Midwest and south-central Canada moving south/southeast/east along/behind a frontal boundary. 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