DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z October 4, 2016
SMOKE Gulf of Alaska and northwest Alaska: Two areas of remnant smoke from the massive fires in Russia were seen this evening. One area was over the Bristol Bauy and extending to the southeast across the upper Aleutians into the western and central Gulf of Alaska. Another area stretched from northwest to southeast from the eastern tip of Siberia across the Bering Straight into northwest Alaska. Lower Mississippi Valley: Extensive agricultural burning from the Missouri Bootheel southward across eastern Arkansas and western Mississippi was producing widespread regional smoke that was mostly drifting to the west. BLOWING DUST Strong winds from the south across central and western Kansas ahead of a frontal system was generating an area of blowing dust that was moving top the north. An area of light dust was also observed originating from White Sands in south central New Mexico and this was moving to the east. Ruminski 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