DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1710z September 08, 2019
SMOKE:
Southern Plains/Southeastern CONUS:
An extensive area of remnant smoke likely from wildfires in the western
US, mixed with smoke from previous days of agricultural burning across
the southeast CONUS, extended from central Texas and Oklahoma across the
northern Gulf of Mexico and southeastern CONUS and across the east coast
to the Atlantic Ocean. Most of this smoke was of light density, although
a swath of moderate-density smoke extended from Oklahoma across Arkansas,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, the Florida Panhandle, Georgia, and
South Carolina. This mass of smoke is generally drifting southeastward
and eastward. In addition, a fire in northwestern Louisiana was also
producing a plume of thin smoke this morning extending eastward.
California/Oregon/Nevada/Arizona:
The large Walker fire in northern California was producing prolific
amounts of smoke thins morning. Thick smoke extended across the Nevada
border north of Reno, while moderate-density smoke (some of which may be
remnant smoke from other fires) extended deep into Nevada and northward
into eastern Oregon. In addition, the Taboose fire in east-central
California was also emitting large amounts of smoke, with thick and
moderate smoke extending southeastward along the Nevada border and
light-density smoke extending southeast and eastward across far southern
Nevada and northeastern Arizona.
Wyoming/Nebraska...
An area of remnant smoke possibly related to the California fires was
seen between cloud cover across eastern Wyoming and western and central
Nebraska. This smoke was of medium and light density.
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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