DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0330Z April 24, 2018
Southwestern US... Fires in north central and east central Arizona and southwestern New Mexico were emitting moderately dense to locally thick smoke which spread generally to the east during the day. Central US... A large amount of seasonal fires were detected across central and eastern Kansas, eastern Nebraska, Iowa, and northwestern Missouri with many individual thin density smoke plumes visible. A number of the plumes merged to form larger patches of smoke with the majority of the smoke moving to the west or southwest. Cloudiness across Arkansas, much of Missouri, Illinois, and points to the east and southeast of there prevented fire and smoke detection in satellite imagery. Gulf of Mexico/Bay of Campeche... A large mass of thin density smoke attributed to the significant amount of seasonal burning occurring in Mexico and Central America was seen across the Bay of Campeche and up over the central and eastern Gulf of Mexico. Thicker areas of smoke were noted closer to some of the fire activity over Mexico and Central America. JS Earlier This Morning... SMOKE: Pennsylvania... Fires in the eastern part of the state were observed producing smoke traveling northwest. -Westbrook 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