DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0000Z September 14, 2015
SMOKE: Western US/Great Basin/Rockies/Plains: Wildfires burning across central/northern California, southern/eastern Oregon and northern/central Idaho are producing areas of moderately dense to dense smoke moving northeast to eastward across the western US, northern/central Great Basin and Rockies and into the northern/central Plains. The heaviest smoke is near source. Moderately dense smoke extends across northern California, Nevada, Utah, southern Oregon, Idaho and into western Wyoming. This light density smoke stretches as far south as northern Arizona and southern Colorado, far north as central Montana and northwest North Dakota and as far east as central North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska. Cloud cover across a large area of the Pacific Northwest/California and into Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and Wyoming is obscuring the full extent of the smoke. Lower Mississippi Valley/Southern Plains Numerous fires burning in southeast Texas, southern Louisiana, eastern Arkansas, northwest Mississippi and southeast Missouri are producing light plumes across those regions. 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