DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z March 7, 2017

SMOKE:
Florida:
A long narrow mainly thin density smoke plume from a wildfire burning
near Naples Florida extended to the west and northwest and offshore over
the Gulf of Mexico. The remnants of the plume then fan out as it spreads
northward over a portion of the Florida panhandle.


SMOKE and DUST:
Central and South Central US...
The large wildfires in the panhandles of both western Oklahoma and
northwestern Texas along with southwestern Kansas continued to burn
overnight into this morning with some of the areal extent and intensity
gradually diminishing as the winds died down. Satellite imagery this
morning though did still show a number of active hot spots within these
fire complexes. Visible satellite imagery indicated an expansive region
of leftover thin to moderate density smoke and blowing dust covering a
good portion of the Southern Plains from south central Kansas southward
over Oklahoma and much of the northern two-thirds or so of Texas. The
combination of smoke and blowing dust also then spread to the northeast
along a frontal boundary over Arkansas, southern and eastern Missouri,
and the southern half of Illinois. The smoke and dust may extend farther
to the northeast, but cloudiness interfered with additional information
from satellite imagery.

DUST:
Colorado...
A couple of stripes of thin density blowing dust originated from sources
in northeastern and east central Colorado and spread to the east and
southeast reaching into southwestern Nebraska and northwestern Kansas
by late in the morning.

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

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.