DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
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Southwest US: Several areas of blowing dust were seen over parts of Utah, California and Nevada ahead of a storm system that is bringing strong winds to the region. Areas of blowing dust were observed over eastern Millard county in Utah, Churchill and Esmeralda counties in Nevada and Inyo county in California. The dust was all lifting to the northeast. Great Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley: A tremendous number of fires were detected over eastern Kansas and eastern Oklahoma. This has resulted in a large number of smoke plumes that have merged together into a larger mass of smoke that covered much of the region by sunset and was drifting to the east and northeast into western Missouri. Additional smoke was seen with fires over east Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas. Graphics of these plumes are depicted at the web links below. Ruminski THE FORMAT OF THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS BEING MODIFIED. IT WILL NO LONGER DESCRIBE THE VARIOUS PLUMES THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES. THESE PLUMES ARE DEPICTED IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE: JPEG: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/hms.html GIS: http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm KML: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html THIS TEXT PRODUCT WILL CONTINUE TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF SMOKE WHICH HAVE BECOME DETACHED FROM AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE, TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. IT WILL ALSO STILL INCLUDE DESCRIPTIONS OF BLOWING DUST. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THESE CHANGES OR THE SMOKE TEXT PRODUCT IN GENERAL SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov