DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0400Z March 6, 2017

SMOKE:
Mid-Atlantic/Central Appalachians/Southeast...
Only widely scattered individual smoke plumes were detected during the day
from Virginia southward to Georgia. A little farther to the west, a couple
of more significant plumes were seen spreading to the north and northeast
from fires in southeastern Tennessee and eastern Kentucky. Otherwise,
because of the fact that less burning was occurring than in recent days
and more cloudiness was present, much less fire and smoke was detected
in satellite imagery over the Central, South Central, and Southeastern US.

DUST:
Southwestern US...
Streaks of mainly thin to moderately dense blowing dust were visible
emanating from source regions in southeastern California, southern Nevada,
southwestern to north central Utah, and northwestern and north central
to northeastern Arizona. The most significant dust appeared to stretch
from southwestern to north central Utah and northern to northeastern
Arizona. All of the dust in these regions was generally moving quickly
off to the northeast. Another area of possible blowing dust was noted
spreading from far northern Mexico (just south of the New Mexico border)
and southwestern New Mexico across far western Texas and south central and
southeastern New Mexico. Cloudiness moving over this area made detection
of blowing dust difficult.

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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

Unless otherwise indicated:

Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.

Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.

A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.

Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.