DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z July 30, 2011
California/Nevada/Oregon/Idaho: The Lion wildfire in Tulare County, CA in Sequoia National Forest continues to burn. New smoke from the fire is mostly not able to be discerned due to extensive cloud cover over the burn site. However, remnant smoke from yesterday and early today could be seen circulating around an anticyclone and spreading across much of northern California into southeast Oregon and northern Nevada and across southern Idaho toward the Wyoming border. Wyoming: A large fire (Norton Point) in Fremont county in northwest Wyoming was again producing an area of thick smoke spreading east across northern Wyoming. Florida: Several fires over east central Florida this afternoon and evening generated light to moderately dense smoke plumes which moved westward across the state and approached the Gulf coast by sunset. Northern Canada: A couple of large wildfires were observed to be burning this afternoon/evening over the eastern end of Great Slave Lake in the southern Northwest Territories. However, cloud cover and limited satellite data over the region this evening have precluded a detailed smoke analysis. Some smoke was seen moving to the southeast but the full extent of the smoke was unable to be determined. Ruminski THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME DETACHED FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE..TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ARE ALSO DESCRIBED. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF THESE AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO THE SOURCE FIRE 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 ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov