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