DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200z February 17, 2019
SMOKE:
Northern Texas...
A large grassland fire in the northwest Texas panhandle northwest of
Amarillo resulted in a moderately dense smoke plume which spread to the
east during the late afternoon.
Southwestern Arizona...
A fire near the Colorado River in far southwestern Arizona produced
a thin to moderately dense area of smoke which moved to the east and
southeast during the afternoon.
DUST:
New Mexico/Texas/Oklahoma/Northern Mexico...
A region of thin to moderately dense blowing dust moved to the east
and northeast across far northern Mexico, southern and southeastern New
Mexico and much of western Texas reaching into southwestern Oklahoma by
late in the day. The primary sources for this dust included White Sands
in south central New Mexico and the northern part of the Mexican state of
Chihuahua in northern Mexico just south of the New Mexico border. Other
sources were noted over southeastern New Mexico and western Texas.
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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/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg
GIS: ftp://satpsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/FIRE/HMS/GIS/
KML: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/fire.kml (fire)
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/smoke.kml (smoke)
ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO:
SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov