Friday, August 27, 2010

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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.