DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0400Z August 28, 2010
Lower Mississippi Valley: Smoke from numerous agricultural fires across the area mixed in with haze from an unknown origin was seen in the last images of the day slowing drifting to the southwest. This area of mixed aerosols stretches from Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and out into the Gulf of Mexico. North Central US/South Central Canada: Numerous wildfires, which were observed burning across Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana yesterday, produced light to moderately dense smoke which can now be seen across southern Manitoba, southwest Ontario and into the Upper Great Lakes. This area of smoke is slowly drifting to the east. Idaho: An area of blowing dust in eastern Butte county can be seen extending over 150 miles to the northeast into Montana. This area was visible from 1315Z through sunset. Nevada: An area of blowing dust in Churchill county can be seen extending 45 miles to the ENE. Spampata 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.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/land/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