DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z August 18, 2015
SMOKE: Western US/Plains/Southern Canada/Mississippi Valley/Upper Great Lakes/Ohio Valley: Numerous wildfires burning across the Pacific Northwest and California are producing tremendous amounts of smoke over a large section of western/central US. Moderately dense to dense smoke is seen across sections of northern California, covering most of Oregon, northern Nevada, central/eastern Washington, Idaho, western Montana, northwest Wyoming and western North Dakota and South Dakota. The heaviest smoke is located over northwest California, northern Oregon, central/eastern Washington and into parts of northern Idaho. Lighter smoke spreads as far east as Minnesota, as far north as southern Alberta/Saskatchewan and as far south as northeast Kansas. Another area of residual smoke from the wildfires out west is seen over parts of the Southern Plains, spreading northeast across Texas, eastern/central Oklahoma, northeast Arkansas, southeast Kansas, most of Missouri, Illinois, western Indiana and up to northern Michigan. Mid Atlantic and Northeast US/ far Eastern Canada/Atlantic A large area of residual light smoke is seen as far south as Delaware and extending north across the northeast into New Hampshire, Mass, Conn, RI, Maine and north into eastern Quebec and far north as Labrador/Newfoundland. Southeast California: A large wildfire burning in east central Fresno county is producing a large area of moderately dense to very dense smoke across several counties. Smoke is seen in Tulare and Inyo counties in California and spreading east into the counties of Nye, Clark and Lincoln in southern Nevada. J Kibler 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