DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0000Z April 22, 2019
SMOKE:
Georgia into South Florida...
Smoke was observed blowing off to the east-southeast from fires in south
Georgia, north Florida, and around Lake Okeechobee this afternoon. These
smoke plumes were generally very light, although one fire in south
Florida was more dense than the other fires.
Louisiana into the western Florida Panhandle...
Mainly light density smoke plumes were observed moving around an area of
high pressure centered over Mobile Bay this evening. Again, one or two
smoke plumes were of moderate density. The smoke plumes east of Mobile Bay
were moving southwest while those west of Mobile Bay were moving north.
Central U.S...
Residual smoke from the fires across the central Plains yesterday was
observed drifting north over northwestern Arkansas and far northeastern
Oklahoma. One or two other smoke plumes were observed moving north. Due
to the presence of scattered cloud cover, there are likely more smoke
plumes across Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and Oklahoma that are not analyzed.
Michigan...
A single fire in Michigan was producing a fairly impressive light to
possibly moderate density smoke plume that was fanning out as it was
moving off toward the north. This was observed through scattered cloud
cover, so it could be more dense in spots.
BLOWING DUST:
South-central New Mexico...
A very small amount of dust was observed being kicked up by southwest
winds and moving off toward the northeast.
South-central Saskatchewan...
More small amounts of dust were being kicked up from Chaplin Lake and
moving off toward the east-southeast.
-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