DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1630Z October 30, 2017
SMOKE: British Columbia/Pacific Northwest/Near Pacific coast... An elongated plume of thin density smoke was observed extending west-southwest from ongoing fire activity on the Olympic Peninsula and Victoria Island. In northwestern Oregon, a couple of fires were seen emitting thin density smoke plumes that were traveling towards the west. Other smaller smoke plumes were seen associated with fire activity throughout British Columbia and northern Idaho. Louisiana/Arkansas... A fire in southwestern Louisiana was seen emitting a thin density smoke plume. This smoke plume, visible as the sun rose over the region this morning, was being blown off to the northeast. Another fire in west-central Louisiana was also emitting a smoke plume towards the northeast. A third smoke plume was visible in south-central Arkansas, which appeared to get caught up in winds changing with height as the smoke plume rose, with light near-surface flow towards the northeast but quickly changing counter-clockwise with height towards the southeast. DUST: West Texas... Moderate north-northeasterly winds trailing a cold frontal passage are kicking up dust across northern and western Texas. Specifically, the source regions appear to be in southern Cottle County, northwestern King County, and southeastern Gaines County. These dust plumes extend to the south-southwest from their source regions. -Hosley 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