DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0001Z August 16, 2019
SMOKE:
Western and Central Canada and the northeastern Pacific...
Smoke visibility was very low this late afternoon and evening due to all
the cloud coverage over most of Canada. Individual smoke plumes were seen
emitting towards the east-southeast from the fires in the NW corner of
the US.
Northern Arizona/Northwestern Nevada...
Light to Moderate smoke was still seen across northern Arizona coming
from a couple fires around the Grand Canyon. Some remnant smoke was
also noted. Smoke was moving different directions near and around the
parent fires.
Southeastern US...
A couple of fires were observed emitting varying density smoke plumes
across Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, the most dense of which was
in and over west-central Alabama. All the smoke was moving off toward
the southwest.
Rodriguez
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/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg
GIS: ftp://satpsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/FIRE/HMS/GIS/
KML: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/fire.kml (fire)
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/smoke.kml (smoke)
ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO:
SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov