DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z August 30, 2019
SMOKE:
Alaska/Gulf of Alaska/Canada....
Fires in southern Alaska were responsible for an area of varying density
smoke stretching from the northern portions of Cook Inlet into the
southern Yukon. Another area of similar density smoke was observed in
southwestern Alaska.
Western CONUS...
Widely scattered wildfire activity from north-central Washington State
into Arizona was producing moderate to thick density smoke plumes. Much
of the smoke was observed moving off toward the east or east-northeast.
Wyoming and Colorado...
A wildfire in central Wyoming was observed producing a thick smoke plume
that stretched southeastward into northeastern Colorado. Remnant smoke
was also moving over this region this afternoon, presumably from a fire
in one of the Pacific Coast states.
Southeastern CONUS into the Plains...
Scattered presumably agricultural burns were observed this afternoon
across much of the southeast and Great Plains, from eastern Virginia
into the Florida Panhandle into southern Texas and central Kansas. Much
of the smoke was moving counter-clockwise around surface high pressure
centered near the Mississippi-Tennessee border.
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/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