DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1730Z August 31, 2013
Smoke: US An elongated area of thin density remnant smoke stretches from central CA northeast across Nevada, SE Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Minnesota, and the western Great Lakes region before curving south over the Midwest states stretching as far south as the lower Mississippi River Valley and eastern Texas. The smoke originated from several wildfires in the western US including the Rim wildfire in central CA, the American wildfire in CA, and the Little Queens and Kelley Fire in the Sawtooth Mountains of ID. Embedded patches of moderate to very dense smoke are seen in central California, northern Nevada, and southern Idaho along with another patch near the southern Montana – northern Wyoming border. It is possible that the remnant smoke observed in Texas and the lower Mississippi Valley is mixed with surface pollutants, as indicated by aerosol models. Ramirez THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF 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