DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z November 16, 2023
SMOKE: Ohio/Kentucky/Tennessee/West Virginia… Several fires throughout the west-central Appalachians were observed through the morning producing light smoke plumes generally moving north, although light winds allowed some plumes to wander a bit. Notable fires were seen along the Tennessee/North Carolina border, in eastern Tennessee northwest of Knoxville, and in eastern Kentucky. Remnant smoke from these fires extended over West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Mid-Atlantic US… A large wildfire in Bedford County, Virginia was observed producing an area of smoke of up to high density moving westward at this time, although smoke was also observed moving eastward and southward earlier in the morning. Light smoke from this fire extended east-northeastward across southern Maryland, Delaware, southern New Jersey, and the Atlantic Ocean as far eastward as southeast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. MTC 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 map: https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg Smoke data: https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS/Smoke_Polygons Fire data: https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS/Fire_Points ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO: SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov