DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0330Z September 14, 2010
Idaho/Wyoming: A narrow patch of thin remnant smoke was seen late this morning stretching from eastern Idaho into northwest Wyoming. California: A mix of residual smoke with new smoke from the ongoing fires in the central and southern Sierra was seen over the central and southern Sierra and extending to the east-northeast to near the Nevada border. Lower Mississippi Valley: A large number of agricultural burns, mainly west of the Mississippi in southeast Missouri, eastern Arkansas and northeast Louisiana were producing numerous small plumes of smoke that were quickly detaching from the source fires and moving to the west. Florida: A fire that was seen burning for much of the day in southern Putnam county generated a plume of light to moderately dense smoke that fanned out to the east and west and stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic by sunset. Ruminski 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