Friday, September 13, 2019

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z September 13, 2019

SMOKE:
Southern Idaho/Western Wyoming...
A long narrow smoke plume of thin to moderate density spread to the
east over southern Idaho and into western Wyoming from a fire in western
Owyhee County of southwestern Idaho.

Northern and Central California/Northwestern Nevada...
The Walker Fire in northeastern California continued to burn overnight and
into the morning with leftover mainly thin density smoke covering portions
of northern and central California including the San Francisco-Oakland
metro areas as well as northwestern Nevada. Locally thick smoke was seen
near the fire and in the valley regions to the west of the fire.

Northern and Central Arizona/Far Southern Nevada/Far southeastern Utah...
A broad area of thin density smoke associated with several wildfires
occurring in the forested regions of central Arizona stretched from
extreme southern Nevada eastward over portions of northern and central
Arizona to northeastern Arizona and far southeastern Utah. A patch of
moderate to thick density smoke was located within the thinner density
smoke over central and northwestern Arizona.

Far Eastern Alaska/Northwestern and North Central Canada...
Significant wildfire activity in the Yukon Province of northwestern
Canada resulted in a very long swath of thin to moderate density smoke
stretching from far eastern Alaska over the central and northern portions
of the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut to at least as far
east as the far northern part of Hudson Bay. An area of thick smoke was
noted near and to the north and northwest of a few of the larger fire
complexes in the central Yukon. Cloudiness was scattered over portions
of Alaska and Northwestern and North Central Canada which did affect
smoke detection and density information to some extent.

JS



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.