Friday, September 06, 2019

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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.