DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0400Z February 10, 2017
SMOKE: South Central US... Numerous seasonal fires were detected across the South Central US with quite a few smoke plumes visible as well. Most of the smoke plumes were of thin density though a few locally thicker plumes were noted as well with the majority of the smoke seen over portions of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Some of the individual smoke plumes had merged together into larger patches of smoke primarily over southwestern Louisiana and southeastern Texas as well as far southern Texas. AEROSOL: Gulf of Mexico/Bay of Campeche... A swath of thin density aerosol was visible along a frontal boundary stretching from west to east from along and off the coast of eastern Mexico eastward to near and over the southern half of the Florida peninsula. This aerosol also extended farther to the south and became more dense over the Bay of Campeche. It is believed that at least some of this aerosol is composed of smoke from fires burning in eastern and southeastern Mexico and from oil rigs in the Bay of Campeche. 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