Tuesday, September 9, 2014

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z September 10, 2014

SMOKE
Western US:
Several wildfires burning in California and Oregon have produced a broad
area of smoke that covers a large portion of California, southern Oregon,
southeast Idaho, northern Nevada and adjoining areas of the Pacific off
the central and southern California coast. The largest fires producing the
most smoke are the Happy Camp and July complexes in northwest California
and the Meadow fire near Yosemite. The areas of moderate to dense smoke
embedded within the larger overall area of smoke was seen over northern
and central California and in close proximity to the Meadow fire. An
additional area of moderate smoke was over northern Nevada. The large
wildfire in northern California continues to produce moderately dense
to dense smoke.  The smoke is moving to the southeast and has spread
southwest to northeast.  This area of smoke extends from the Pacific
Ocean through northern California, western Nevada, central Idaho and
into western Montana before it becomes obscured by clouds.

Lower Mississippi Valley:
A large number of agricultural fires in the lower Mississippi Valley
over southeast Missouri, eastern Arkansas, western Mississippi and
eastern Louisiana were generating numerous small plumes of smoke that
are lifting to the north.

BLOWING DUST
Oregon:
A thick but narrow plume of dust was seen over south central Oregon
originating from Summer Lake and moving south reaching the California
border by sunset. A smaller plume of light dust was coming from the
sandy loose soils just to the northeast of Summer Lake.

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.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.