Thursday, October 21, 2010

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z October 21, 2010

Nebraska/Iowa:
A thin area of remnant smoke is seen in morning satellite imagery drifting
southeastward across portions of eastern Nebraska and western Iowa.  It is
believed that the smoke is from a large fire located in southwestern South
Dakota that was burning yesterday and is still ongoing as of this morning.

Southeast Idaho/Southwest Wyoming/Northern Utah:
A narrow and elongated plume of thin detached smoke plume is drifting to
the northeast across portions of southeast Idaho, southwest Wyoming and
extreme north-central Utah. The smoke appears to have originated from
a fire yesterday in southwestern Wyoming, that continues to burn today.

Northeast Oregon/Southeast Washington/Northern Idaho:
Remnant smoke could be seen drifting northeastward across northeastern
Oregon into northern Idaho and southeastern Washington state. Numerous
fires were analyzed to have been burning yesterday in Oregon and this
smoke likely originated from a combination of fires.

Warren


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.