DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z January 25, 2017
SMOKE: Florida... Fires especially over the central and southern portions of the Florida peninsula were producing mainly thin density smoke plumes which spread quickly to the east and southeast during the afternoon eventually reaching and extending off the Atlantic coast of the state. Louisiana/Eastern Texas... Several fires over eastern and southeastern Texas as well as central and southern Louisiana were emitting thin to moderately dense smoke plumes which fanned out as they moved in an northerly direction. DUST: Western Texas... Swaths of thin to perhaps moderately dense blowing dust originated from sources in western Texas generally between Midland and Lubbock and spread to the east and northeast across north central Texas and over the border into southwestern and south central Oklahoma by late in the day. 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