DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z November 15, 2020
SMOKE:
Great Plains...
Five fires scattered from New Mexico into Kansas were observed emitting
light smoke this afternoon among the widespread blowing dust event. These
smoke plumes were mainly moving off toward the east, with the smoke in
Kansas moving off toward the northeast.
Southeastern CONUS...
Light smoke from agricultural burning was observed from southern Arkansas
into Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. The smoke was moving off towards
the northeast across southern Arkansas, north across Mississippi, and
northeast across Alabama. The most impressive smoke plume this afternoon
was observed over central Mississippi, where a couple small fires helped
to produce a smoke plume over 100 miles long.
DUST:
Front Range/Great Plains/Northern Mexico...
A widespread blowing dust event was observed this afternoon from
northeastern Colorado south into northern Chihuahua. A large storm system
centered over the Northern Plains was lofting and transporting dust mainly
from east tow west along much of the area described above. Much of the
dust is light in nature, but there are a couple areas where moderate
to thick dust plumes are noted, such as a spot in the Western Texas
Panhandle about 115 miles east of El Paso, an area in western Oklahoma
and the North Texas Panhandle where dust is convergent and increasing
in density downstream of the northeastern Colorado source region, and
some remnant dust over central Texas.
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