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