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