DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z September 7, 2010
Mississippi Valley: Numerous agricultural fires across the Mississippi Valley are producing a large area of light smoke moving northward across eastern Arkansas, southeastern Missouri, southern Illinois, western Mississippi, western Tennessee and western Kentucky. Colorado and Nebraska: An area of light smoke is seen stretching from north/central Colorado to eastern Nebraska with an embedded area of heavy smoke reaching northeastern Colorado. The smoke is originated from a wildfire burning west of Boulder, CO and is moving eastward. Central California: A wildfire in east central California county of Tuolumne is producing moderately dense to dense smoke moving south to southeast from the source. Lighter smoke is moving east into Nevada and flaring out through the San Joaquin Valley. Earle 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