DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z September 1, 2013
Western and Central US: The Rim Fire in east central California continues to emit large quantities of smoke which have spread a large distance from the fire. The remnant thin density plume extends northeast from the central California into northwest Nevada, southeast Oregon, nearly all of Idaho, and southern Montana before curving southeast over Wyoming, Nebraska, and Kansas. From there the smoke plume continues to stretch east as far as the southern Great Lakes. Lower Mississippi River Valley Several agricultural burns are collectively producing a very localized, very light density remnant smoke mass over parts of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Northern Gulf of Mexico/Coastal Mississippi River Valley/Texas An unknown aerosol is observed this morning in the northern Gulf of Mexico near the Mississippi coast, Alabama coast, and the Florida panhandle coast. This aerosol mass also covers extreme southern Louisiana and east Texas. Aerosol models suggest it to be sulfates and haze, though it could be partially comprised of remnant smoke as well. Ramirez THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF 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