DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2345Z November 14, 2016
SMOKE... Central and Southern Appalachians/Southeast: Numerous wildfires continue to burn across eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina, extreme southwest Virginia, southeast Kentucky, northern Georgia and Upstate South Carolina. The smoke coverage has changed little from the previous narrative in the morning with a slight eastward expansion of the smoke into South Carolina and eastern Georgia. The smoke is seen covering much of the eastern half of Tennessee and the northeast portions of Alabama, northern/central Georgia, upstate of South Carolina and Western into central North Carolina. The heaviest smoke was in the vicinity of the larger wildfires along the Georgia/Tennessee and along the North Carolina/South Carolina/Georgia border. Moderate to dense smoke was also spreading across western into central South Carolina by sunset. Smaller fires producing light smoke are seen in southeast Kentucky south into eastern Tennessee. 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