DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z April 12, 2018
SMOKE... Central Plains/South Texas/ArkLaTex: Numerous fires across Oklahoma, Texas, western Arkansas and Louisiana were observed emitting smoke of varying density. Much of this smoke was moving off rapidly (up to approximately 40mph over western Oklahoma) to the north behind the passage of a high pressure center that moved across Arkansas and Mississippi this afternoon. Southeastern CONUS: From Mississippi into north Florida, fires emitting various density smoke plumes were seen in visible satellite imagery this afternoon. These smoke plumes were seen moving off toward the south to southwest ahead of the same high pressure center mentioned in the previous section. BLOWING DUST... Southern California: Across the deserts of southern California, dust was observed being kicked up by strong west to east winds. As for specific locations, dust was seen being blown over the southern half of the Salton Sea and points south from the Colorado Desert as well as dust moving north-northeast from the Sheephole Valley Wilderness area in the Mojave Desert. 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