DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1630Z August 28, 2015
SMOKE Pacific Northwest/Central US/Southern Canada: Large wildfires in the Pacific Northwest continue to produce moderately dense to very dense smoke that is primarily observed in northwest California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, western Minnesota and Illinois extending as low as Kansas. Another area of light density plume is seen in southern US. The smoke originating form the Pacific NW is obscured by lots of cloud, which restricted visual observation of the full extent of the smoke. The second plume covers southern Missouri, southeast Oklahoma, most of Texas and is heading south into the Gulf. The northern patch of smoke is heading north into Canada. The light to moderate density smoke is visible in southern British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and western Ontario. UNKNOWN AEROSOL Southeast US An unknown aerosol with some contributions from smoke from the Pacific Northwest fires was seen over the Southeast US from southeast Virginia extending southwest to the central Gulf Coast. Kemal 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