DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0400Z February 11, 2018
SMOKE: Other than what was noted this morning, very little in the way of significant smoke was seen in satellite imagery during the day in part due to widespread cloud cover over a sizable percentage of the country. The most significant smoke plume seen which was of moderate to locally thick density originated from a fire in Cochise County of southeastern Arizona and moved quickly off to the northeast reaching southwestern New Mexico. DUST: Southwestern US... Blowing dust emanating from multiple source regions across Nevada and western Utah was visible spreading to the south. Some of the dust originating over east central Nevada and northwestern and western Utah was moderately dense to locally thick. Farther to the southeast, a bit of thin density blowing dust was seen moving to the northeast of White Sands in south central New Mexico. It is likely that more blowing dust was occurring over far southern California, Arizona, and other parts of New Mexico given the gusty winds noted, but cloudiness moving over the area interfered with additional dust detection from satellite imagery. JS Earlier This Morning... SMOKE: Southern Florida... Smoke plumes were visible over southern Florida emanating from fires throughout the agricultural areas near and south of Lake Okeechobee. These smoke plumes were moving off toward the northwest over Lake Okeechobee. South Dakota... Throughout the state of South Dakota, four smoke plumes were seen moving from west to east. BLOWING DUST: Northwestern Nevada... Dust was observed being lifted from northwestern Nevada's Black Rock Desert north of Pyramid Lake. That dust was being transported towards the south-southwest on north-northeasterly winds. Hosley 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