DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 02z September 08, 2019
SMOKE:
Central Plains/Central and Eastern Texas/Southeastern CONUS:
A vast area of light density smoke extended from the central plains and
eastern Texas through the southern plains and into the southeastern CONUS.
Light density smoke was also visible extending off of the coast into the
northern portions of the Gulf of Mexico. This large swath of smoke could
be attributed to remnant smoke from fires located in the northern plains
and also to abundant fire activity over the southeastern and central
plains region. Due to the large amount of fire activity, a region of
moderate density of smoke mixed with cloud cover extended from eastern
Texas and Oklahoma into Georgia and South Carolina. Additional plumes
of moderate and heavy density smoke associated with larger fires in this
region were visible in Louisiana, up the Mississippi River and near the
Florida Panhandle.
Northern California/Pacific Northwest/Northern Four-Corners Region:
A large area of light to moderate density smoke was observed extending
from fires in northern California into Oregon and Washington, as well
as east through northern Nevada, southern Idaho, southwestern Wyoming,
Colorado and Utah. Cloud cover obscures some of the visibility, but due
to the large Walker Fire in northeastern California and additional fire
activity scattered throughout the region and concentrated in northern
California, heavy density smoke was especially visible extending east
from fires in northern California and especially from the Walker Fire.
Heavy density smoke from the Walker fire extends east through Nevada,
Utah and Colorado.
Far Southern Texas...
A plume of light density smoke was visible moving northwest from a fire
in the far southern tip of Texas. Additional moderate density smoke
was also visible extending from the fire.
EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON...
SMOKE:
Northern California/Oregon...
The Walker Fire in northeastern California was producing a plume
consisting of heavy-density smoke extending ENE into Nevada and Utah,
and light to moderate-density smoke extending further into northwestern
Colorado. The plumes spread ENE in the afternoon across Nevada and
Idaho. The full extent of the the smoke plume was not visible due to
cloud coverage over the fire.
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 eastern Colorado towards the Carolinas, and pushed south
across portions of the SE U.S., the northern/central Gulf of Mexico,
and western Texas.
Levine
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)
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