DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1630Z October 2, 2010
Texas/Louisiana/western Gulf of Mexico: An area of thin smoke was observed this morning over central and eastern Texas moving to the east-southeast in central Texas and then moving more to the south southeast over southeast Texas into the western Gulf of Mexico. This smoke is likely remnant smoke from the large fires burning in Utah over the past several days. A long plume of thin smoke from an active fire southwest of Grand Lake in Cameron parish in southwest Louisiana extended from the fire to the southwest to just of the Texas coast near Matagorda Island and Port O'Connor. Arizona: A very thin patch of smoke was seen over northeast Arizona, likely remnant smoke from fires yesterday in central Arizona. Oregon/Idaho/Wyoming: Areas of light smoke were seen stretching from central Oregon eastward across central and south central Idaho into southeast Idaho and western Wyoming. This is likely remnant smoke from the numerous fires in Oregon yesterday. 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.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