DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0115Z September 4, 2013
Northern Great Plains/Southern Canadian Prairies: Thin to moderate smoke from the Rim fire about 2-3 days ago can be seen moving ENE covering the northern 2/3rds of MT into S Saskatchewan and all of ND. At this point, smoke begins to turn more southerly and is described below. Central US Great Plains: Thin to moderately dense smoke from the Rim fire about 3-5 days ago can be seen moving due south on the eastern side of a large ridge affecting the Rockies. This smoke covers all of SD, SW MN, W 2/3rd of IA, E 1/3 of NEB, across Central KS into the OK and N TX Panhandles (slightly moving SSW). Burst of thin and moderate smoke from numerous agricultural fires across Central KS and North Central OK can be seen in the low levels below the boundary layer. Pacific Ocean, SW of Santa Barbara: A very high level band of thin smoke likely from the Rim fire that moved south into S CA, Mexico a few days ago (but was very difficult to track due to weather clouds)... can be seen extending NE from about 29N125W to the Reyes/Concepcion points in SW CA. The band is about 50km wide NW to SE. Gallina 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