Monday, September 13, 2010

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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.