DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0400Z November 19, 2016
SMOKE... Southeastern US... During the afternoon, a change in the wind to a more southerly direction resulted in the locally moderately dense to thick smoke near the ongoing wildfires burning over portions of eastern Kentucky, eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina, northwestern South Carolina, and northern Georgia to shift more towards the north. A larger mass of lingering thin density smoke covered much of the central and southern Appalachians and also extended eastward over northern South Carolina and much of North Carolina. Farther to the south, a patch of leftover thin density smoke also attributed to these wildfires was seen over northeastern Florida, southeastern Georgia, and southern South Carolina and just offshore from there over the Atlantic. JS 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