DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z September 6, 2016

SMOKE:
California:
Moderately dense to locally thick smoke from the Soberanes Fire near
the coast in Monterey County of Central California moved southward along
and off the coast. A stripe of detached thin density smoke most likely
from this fire moved back inland over far southern California including
the San Diego area. Farther to the north, more significant moderately
dense to thick smoke from the Gap Fire Continued to cover portions of
northern California while a larger area of thin density smoke spread
southward over central California and offshore of central California.

Lower-Mississippi Valley:
Quite a few seasonal agricultural fires were analyzed during the day
primarily over eastern Arkansas and northwestern Mississippi in the
Lower Mississippi Valley region which resulted in a number of thin
density smoke plumes which generally moved off to the northwest.

DUST:
Caribbean/Puerto Rico:
The sizable area of what is believed to be Saharan dust continued to
be visible shifting a bit more to the west now over the Caribbean,
Hispaniola, Cuba, the southern Bahamas, Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, and
beginning to enter the Bay of Campeche. Significant cloudiness moved over
Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands which prevented dust identification
in satellite imagery there.

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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

Unless otherwise indicated:

Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.

Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.

A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.

Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.