DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z September 22, 2012
Pacific Northwest to the Southern Plains and the Ohio Valley: Numerous large wildfires continue to burn in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana and to emit copious amounts of smoke. The smoke now stretches this evening from the Pacific Northwest across southwest and central Wyoming, northeast Colorado and into the Red River Valley if Texas/Oklahoma. The smoke then bottoms out over Louisiana and Arkansas before turning to the northeast into the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys. Most of the smoke east of the Rockies in light density, while most of the smoke over the and west of the Rockies in moderate to dense. The smoke also extends to the north across eastern British Columbia and then along the British Columbia/Alberta border. Significant smoke plumes also exist with fires burning in the Dakotas and along the northern British Columbia/Alberta border. Please see the graphic links below for details on these plumes which are still actively attached to the source fires. 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