DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z September 27, 2009
Plains/Mississippi Valley: A large area of smoke stretches from eastern Wyoming/Colorado across the Plains and as far east as western Illinois/Wisconsin. The smoke reaches as far south as northeast Texas/northwest Louisiana. Within this smoke is an area of dense smoke extending from eastern Colorado into northwest Kansas and north into southern Nebraska. An area of moderately dense smoke stretches a little farther east into north central Kansas and eastern Nebraska and just reaching across the border into west central Iowa. The residual smoke is from the wildfires burning across California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. Numerous other fires producing smoke continue to burn across Oregon, Idaho and Montana. J Kibler More information on the areas of smoke described above as well as others can be found at the locations listed below. 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