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