DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2347Z May 11, 2018
SMOKE: Arizona... Fires in the area are producing light density smoke plumes that remain attached to their sources while stretching towards the northeast. Smoke from the Tinder fire located in central-state nearly reaches the southeastern boarder of Utah. Texas and Oklahoma... The thin density smoke plume associated with the Mallard wildfire located in northern Texas remains visible through the cloud cover in satellite imagery tonight. The smoke stretches close to Oklahoma's north-central border. Southeastern US... Agricultural fires throughout the area were detected. Only a portion of the fire plumes were delineated in this evenings analysis due to the weather clouds in the area. UNKNOWN AEROSOL: An predominantly stagnant unknown aerosol was detected in satellite imagery over the majority of the western Gulf of Mexico this evening. DUST: Dust clouds originating from Sonora, Mexico are being carried into southern Arizona and were seen to extend into southern Phoenix. -BOLL 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