DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0330Z September 4, 2011
Pacific Northwest: Heavy smoke is observed in the Cascade Mountain Range mainly from 4 large wildfires: 1) Northern California, on the border of Trinity and Siskiyou counties, light density smoke is moving north into the far southwest corner of Oregon, 2) East portion of Linn County, OR, smoke is moving northwest and out over the Pacific ocean, 3) Hood River county, OR, with this being the primary smoke producer, thick density smoke is observed over counties to the north and west as well as over parts of the coast/Pacific ocean, 4) Jefferson county, WA, this fire is producing moderately dense smoke to the west southwest as far west as the coast. Idaho/Montana/Wyoming: Numerous large wildfires continue to burn in Idaho, western Montana, and northwest Wyoming. Very dense remnant smoke is present near the sources of the fires while light to moderate density smoke stretches over much of central Idaho as far south as Gooding and Lincoln counties and as far north as Mineral country in west central Montana. Smoke is not being emitted in a uniform direction by all fires. Central US/Great Lakes states/southeast US: A large area of light remnant smoke from wildfires in the northwest US as well as from fires in Texas and Oklahoma over the past week is stretching from the Great Lakes region southwest across the central plains and over much of Oklahoma and central Texas. The remnant smoke is circulating about TS Lee's perimeter. Ramirez 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