DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0145Z August 22, 2011
Mid Atlantic Coast: Clouds covered the Lateral West fire in the Great Dismal Swamp but there were some breaks in the clouds this afternoon to get a view of some smoke over the lower Chesapeake Bay with an arm extending east into the Atlantic off the southeast New Jersey coast. Most of this was light smoke and slowly shifting to the east. Florida: Residual light smoke from a fire in northwest Okeechobee county was seen lifting to the north northwest through Polk county by late afternoon. California: The long running fire in Tulare county in the Sequoia National Park was producing a light to moderate smoke plume this afternoon/evening that was lifting to the north across eastern Fresno county into western Mono and eastern Madera. Montana/Idaho/Wyoming: Numerous fires were active again this evening over western Montana and Idaho. A series of fires over southeast Idaho generated light to moderately dense plumes that moved to the northeast reaching the northwest Wyoming border by sunset. A couple of fires over northeast Idaho near the Montana border had light smoke plumes that were slowly drifting to the east. A cluster of fires in northwest Montana had light to moderately dense smoke plumes that were moving to the east. A fire in Teton county Wyoming in the Teton Nationsl Forest had a dense smoke plume that was moving to the east into southern Park county. Ruminski THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME DETACHED FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE..TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ARE ALSO DESCRIBED. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF THESE AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO THE SOURCE FIRE 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 ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov