DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0145Z October 3, 2010
Northwestern U.S.: About a dozen fires in Oregon, Idaho, western Montana and western Wyoming are producing visible light and moderate smoke plumes. The plumes in Oregon extend mostly northward while those in Idaho extend to the northeast, in Montana toward the east and in Wyoming toward the southeast. Fires in Valley County, Idaho, Harney County, Oregon and Park County, Wyoming and one near the border of Bear Lake and Caribou Counties in Idaho are producing particularly noticeable smoke. Mississippi, Louisiana, eastern Texas and western Gulf of Mexico: Southward extending light smoke plumes in southern Mississippi, southern Louisiana and eastern Texas are mixing with an area of remnant smoke and haze over these states and the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. The remnant smoke originated from previous days fires in the same general area. 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