DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z September 20, 2016
Smoke: California/Nevada: Moderately dense to thick smoke from the ongoing Soberanes and Canyon wildfires near the coast of central and south central California continued to be visible fanning out in several directions during the day and stretched from well off the coast to inland as far as west central Nevada. Thinner density smoke also mainly from these fires was detected as far east as the Nevada-Utah border. Utah/Colorado/Arizona/New Mexico: Quite a few fires producing visible smoke in satellite imagery were analyzed during the day scattered over the states of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. Cloudiness spread northward and over some of this region during the afternoon limiting smoke information from satellite imagery. The most significant smoke plumes appeared to be emanating from the fires in eastern Utah County of north central Utah and far southeastern Uintah County in east central Utah near the Colorado border. These moderately dense to thick plumes moved mainly to the east during the day. 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