DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z March 23 2017
SMOKE: Western Gulf of Mexico/Mexico and Texas coastline: Fires burning over the Yucatan Peninsula are producing an area of light smoke and residual smoke from burning yesterday that is spreading up and along the Mexico coast and along the Texas coastline and slightly inland. Southeast US/Mississippi Valley: Numerous fires are burning across southern Alabama and Georgia and the Florida Panhandle are producing light to moderately dense smoke moving south to southeast in direction. Southern Florida: Numerous fires burning near Lake Okeechobee are producing a medium size area of light smoke moving southeast and into the Atlantic. Southern Florida/Eastern Gulf of Mexico... Remnant thin density smoke from the wildfire burning in southern Collier County in southwestern Florida is visible this evening spreading to the southwest and offshore over the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Closer to the fire, smoke is being produced and is moving to the southeast. Northeastern Florida/Offshore over the far western Atlantic... A swath of leftover thin density smoke attributed to recent day(s) fire activity over the Southeastern US was seen this morning embedded within a frontal boundary stretching from northeastern Florida offshore over a portion of the nearby western Atlantic. Central and Southern Plains... Fires were still evident this morning especially over portions of southeastern Kansas, and central and eastern Oklahoma though little smoke was visible due to an increase in cloud cover over the region. J Kibler 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