DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z January 4, 2014
Northern California: A cluster of fires mainly in the Sacramento Valley of interior north central California were responsible for a patch of primarily thin density smoke over the region. Northwestern Mexico/Southern Arizona A small batch of fires over northwestern Mexico produced an area of mostly thin density smoke which moved to the northeast toward south central and southeastern Arizona. The leading edge of the smoke which was visible in satellite imagery was still more than 30 miles from the south central Arizona border at sunset. Blowing Dust over Southern and Southeastern Oregon/Northwestern Nevada: Several streaks of thin density blowing dust/sand originated from source points in south central Oregon and northwestern Nevada after 18Z. The dust/sand moved to the ESE and continued to emanate from these source points until at least sunset. JS 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