DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0115Z September 7, 2011
Currently: Northwest US/Northern Rockies/Northern and Central Great Basin: Wildfires continue to flare up across parts of Idaho, Montana and Oregon. Areas of thick residual smoke from fires in Idaho and Montana are moving south across parts of southern Idaho, eastern Nevada, and western Utah. The smoke is also spreading east northeast into parts of central/eastern Montana and extending into North Dakota and now reaching western Minnesota. Numerous wildfires in Idaho are producing new and very heavy smoke mostly heading south across the state. In Oregon the wildfires are spreading smoke across parts of the northern region of the state and into southern Washington before combining with smoke in Idaho. Lighter smoke is spreading south into northern California. Texas: Numerous fires across eastern Texas are continuing to produce moderately dense to dense smoke pushing as far south as northeast Mexico, into the western sections of the Gulf of Mexico and central Texas. Northern Plains/Upper Mississippi Valley/Southern Canada: Multiple fires across this region are producing light to moderately dense smoke. The smoke is mostly heading north into Canada with a couple plumes over southern Canada producing light smoke heading south into North Dakota. J Kibler Earlier Today: Northwest US/northern US Rockies: Two distinct areas of thin to moderately-dense remnant smoke can be seen across the northwest U.S. in this morning's satellite imagery from GOES-West. The larger area is located across eastern and southern Montana and over southern Idaho. This area of remnant smoke is from several large fires that continue to burn across Idaho and western Montana. Second area is mostly stretched across portions of northern Oregon and southeastern Washington. This second area of remnant smoke is due to fires burning across Oregon. South Dakota/Nebraska: Thin remnant smoke can be seen across portions of south-central South Dakota and north-central Nebraska ahead of cloud shield from weather system located across central Rockies. Origin of smoke is from wildfires burning across Northwest US/northern US Rockies. Texas: Remnant smoke and new smoke plumes are seen across portions of eastern Texas this morning due to multiple wildfires in the eastern half of Texas. Area of smoke is moderately dense and is tracking in a southward direction. Warren 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