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