Saturday, October 2, 2010

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1630Z October 2, 2010

Texas/Louisiana/western Gulf of Mexico:
An area of thin smoke was observed this morning over central and eastern
Texas moving to the east-southeast in central Texas and then moving more
to the south southeast over southeast Texas into the western Gulf of
Mexico. This smoke is likely remnant smoke from the large fires burning
in Utah over the past several days. A long plume of thin smoke from
an active fire southwest of Grand Lake in Cameron parish in southwest
Louisiana extended from the fire to the southwest to just of the Texas
coast near Matagorda Island and Port O'Connor.

Arizona:
A very thin patch of smoke was seen over northeast Arizona, likely
remnant smoke from fires yesterday in central Arizona.

Oregon/Idaho/Wyoming:
Areas of light smoke were seen stretching from central Oregon eastward
across central and south central Idaho into southeast Idaho and western
Wyoming. This is likely remnant smoke from the numerous fires in Oregon
yesterday.

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.