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