DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z September 16, 2012
Pacific Northwest to the western Great Lakes and James Bay: All of the remnant smoke observed this morning can be attributed to the numerous wildfires burning in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. A large swath of smoke extends eastward across these states and into the Dakotas and Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, northern Missouri, northern Illinois and then lifts to the northeast across central Ontario to James Bay. The area with the most moderate to dense smoke was from the Dakotas and Nebraska eastward to Wisconsin and Illinois. Smoke from the fires in Washington was also spreading to the west over Puget Sound and the Olympic peninsula. Kansas and New Mexico: There was a more narrow branch of the smoke from the western wildfires that was dropping to the south and southwest across western Kansas and eastern New Mexico into northern Mexico (Chihuahua). This was an area of light smoke. 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