DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z November 12, 2019
SMOKE:
Utah/New Mexico/Arizona...
Fires in Beaver and Piute County of south central Utah continued
to produce smoke during the afternoon with a change in wind direction
pushing the newly produced thin to moderate density smoke more to the
west and north. Thinner density smoke from earlier spread farther to
the south over Utah with another larger patch of remnant detached smoke
primarily associated with the fire in Piute County settling farther to
the south over east central Arizona and west central New Mexico.
Southeastern U.S...
Numerous seasonal type fires over the eastern half of Alabama and
scattered across Georgia were responsible for many individual smoke
plumes of mainly thin density which generally moved to the north and
northeast during the day. Cloudiness farther to the west from central
Alabama westward prevented much in the way of fire and smoke detection
from satellite imagery.
Southern Florida...
Agricultural fires around Lake Okeechobee in southern Florida produced
a number of thin density smoke plumes which moved quickly off to the west.
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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