DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z September 23, 2015
SMOKE: California/Pacific NW: There is light density remnant smoke from fires in central California, and some localized light smoke from wildfires in Idaho, Oregon, Washington. Mississippi River Valley: Numerous agricultural burns throughout the Mississippi River Valley are collectively producing a large remnant smoke plume over eastern Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missouri, and western Mississippi and Tennessee. From this morning... UNKNOWN AEROSOLE: GULF: There is a large area of haze like feature visible throughout most of the GULF. According to the the online models, it may be a mixture of burning from North America, Eurasia, as well as sulfate. There is a possibility that some dust could be mixed within it as well. Ramirez/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