DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z September 11, 2014
SMOKE California/Nevada: The Happy Camp and July complex fires continued today with moderate to dense smoke moving to the south and southwest across northwest California and into the Pacific. A new fire erupted this afternoon just north of Redding in northern California with moderate to dense smoke moving to the south southwest. The Meadow fire near Yosemite was generating light to locally moderate smoke that was drifting to the west into the central valley. Very light remnant smoke from the past few days was observed over much of northern and central California and extending eastward into central Nevada and Utah. Oregon: Numerous fires burning across the state were generating locally moderately dense smoke near the source fires. The most smoke was detected with the Deception Complex in the Willamette National Forest. North Central Canada: The long running fires just west of Great Slave Lake in Northwest Territories have become more active today and are generating light to moderate density smoke plumes that are moving to the northeast into central Northwest Territories. British Columbia: The fires in west central British Columbia were producing light to moderately dense smoke that was drifting to the west. DUST Idaho: A small plume of light blowing dust was observed over south central Idaho and moving to the east. The plume was originating in south central Blaine county. Washington/Oregon: An area of light blowing dust was detected originating in central Washington east of the Cascades and moving to the south crossing the Columbia river near Pendleton and continuing into north central Oregon. Ruminski 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.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/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