DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700z September 06, 2019
SMOKE: Northern California/Oregon... The Walker Fire in northeastern California was producing a plume consisting of heavy-density smoke extending northeastward into northwestern Nevada, and light-density smoke extending further into southeastern Oregon. Additional fires across northern California were producing light and moderate-density smoke largely drifting in no defined direction. Fires across central Oregon were producing up to heavy-density smoke, with a notable mass of moderate smoke reaching from near the California border to the Columbia River. Great Plains/Southern Great Lakes/Southeastern CONUS... A very large mass of remnant smoke originating from fires in Montana and Wyoming, along with yesterday's agricultural fires in the southeast, extended from South Dakota and Colorado to western Pennsylvania, and across portions of the southern U.S. and the northern Gulf of Mexico from Corpus Christi, Texas, to the Florida Peninsula. The thickest smoke in this area was drifting southeastward across Kansas and Missouri. In addition, today's agricultural fires from east Texas and Oklahoma to southern Georgia were seen producing numerous small plumes of light smoke mainly moving southward. MC 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