DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0000Z April 02, 2019
Central US...
Countless fires were observed from Iowa into Texas, with the highest
density across the Flint Hills in eastern Kansas and northeastern
Oklahoma. Many of these fires were emitting light smoke, with a few more
dense smoke plumes scattered about Kansas and Oklahoma. The smoke from
individual smoke plumes was congealing into one large mass of smoke
moving off toward the northeast. Smoke from individual fires across
western Oklahoma and the northern Texas panhandle are also moving off
toward the northeast.
Southeast US...
Numerous fires from southern Mississippi to Virginia were observed
emitting mainly light smoke this afternoon. The smoke plumes from these
fires was moving off toward the south across Virginia, west-southwest
across the Carolinas and toward the west across Georgia and southern
Alabama around surface high pressure over the mid-Atlantic.
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/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