DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0115ptember 11,2013
Mississippi River Valley/Ohio Valley: An area of light density remnant smoke from days of agricultural burning in the lower Mississippi Valley was detected extending from the Lower Mississippi Valley over eastern Louisiana and Arkansas, western Mississippi and southeast Missouri into southern Illinois and central Indiana and much of Ohio. There was also likely haze mixed in with the smoke through much of this region. California: A large area of remnant smoke is mixing with frsh smoke from the Moran and Rim wildfires in central California and affecting much of the southern two thirds of the state, roughly south of a line from the San Francisco Bay area to Lake Tahoe. Much of this area north of the LA basin is moderately dense with patches of dense smoke close to the Rim fire. Light smoke covered much of southern California, northern Baja and the northern Gulf of California and was curling to the northeast into southern Arizona around a cyclonic circulation over northwest Arizona. Ruminski 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