DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0400Z September 22, 2015
SMOKE: Lower Mississippi Valley/Western Gulf Coast: An area of thin smoke could be seen in evening satellite imagery moving southwestward over and just off the coast of southern Louisiana and southeast Texas. This smoke is from densely packed agricultural burning along the Lower Mississippi Rover Valley with numerous new smoke plumes being produced by the fires there today. California: An aerosol seen off the central California coast and stretching inland across the San Francisco Bay area is believed to be thin remnant smoke, most likely of Asian origin. In addition to the remnant smoke that has crossed the Pacific, Asian dust may be mixed in having spread further inland over north and central California to far western Nevada. The Rough Fire in Fresno County,California also continues to produce an area of moderately dense to dense smoke over the southern Sierra Nevada. DUST: Oregon: A small area of blowing dust/sand can be seen this evening over south central Oregon originating from the Summer Lake dry lake bed. The dust/sand could was visible from about 2215Z until darkness at 0145Z. Sheffler 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