DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z September 3, 2016
SMOKE: Area from Northern California to Montana and South Central Canada: Moderately dense to thick smoke from the Gap wildfire in far northern California spread eastward during the day across northern California. A larger surrounding regionof thin density smoke from this fire extended to the northeast over northern Nevada and southeastern Oregon and into Idaho where it combined with thin to moderately dense smoke from other wildfires in Idaho, western Montana, and northwestern Wyoming. The smoke then stretched much farther to the northeast over Montana and into Saskatchewan in south central Canada. South Central Canada/Central and South Central US: A very large detached batch of thin to moderately dense smoke attributed to the ongoing wildfire activity in the Western US described in the paragraph above was seen throughout the day over much of south central Canada from Saskatchewan eastward to western Quebec. The smoke also covered portions of the Central US from the Dakotas, Minnesota, and the Great Lakes Region southward to Oklahoma, Arkansas, and the Lower Mississippi Valley. UNKNOWN AEROSOL: A swath of unknown aerosol extended from the western Florida Panhandle westward over southern Louisiana and the northwestern Gulf of Mexico and back inland over a good portion of Texas. It is not known how much if any of this aerosol is composed of smoke. JS 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