Friday, December 1, 2017

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1900Z December 1, 2017

Updated to include additional smoke over the Gulf of Mexico...
SMOKE:
Louisiana...
A light to locally moderately thick smoke plume from seasonal fires exists
over the far northwestern part of the state this morning and early
afternoon.
The thinner part of the plume is moving west-northwest into northeastern
Texas, while a thicker plume is moving little over the fire sites.

Western Gulf of Mexico...
Patches of thin density smoke were seen this morning stretching well
out over the western Gulf of Mexico to the south and southwest of the
Louisiana coast with some of the smoke brushing the Texas coastline. The
larger and more western area of smoke was attributed to an ongoing fire
in Cameron Parish of southwestern Louisiana while the eastern most and
smaller batch was leftover from other seasonal fires burning in southern
Louisiana yesterday.

BK


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.