DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z February 25, 2018
SMOKE: Southeastern US... Many fires were detected over northern Florida, central and southern Georgia, central and eastern South Carolina, and southern and eastern North Carolina. Some of these fires were producing visible smoke of primarily thin density which moved generally to the north and northeast. DUST: Southeastern New Mexico/Western Texas... A very narrow streak of blowing dust originated from a source point near the border of east-central New Mexico and west-central Texas and moved to the east toward the Lubbock TX region by later in the afternoon. Farther to the south, a more significant batch of thin to perhaps locally moderately dense blowing dust originated from a number of source regions over southeastern New Mexico and far western Texas and spread to the east over the Midland-Odessa TX area. AEROSOL: Western Gulf of Mexico... A region of aerosol which is composed at least partly by smoke from oil rig flaring in the Bay of Campeche and some smoke from seasonal fires in southeastern Mexico was visible spreading to the northwest and north over a portion of the Bay of Campeche and the western Gulf of Mexico. 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