DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1720Z September 15, 2019
SMOKE:
Southern Oregon/Northern California/Montana/Idaho...
The South Fork Creek for located in southwestern Oregon continues
to produce thin to moderately smoke this morning. The smoke stretched
towards the northwest and into Idaho. Remnant smoke was visible over the
majority of Montana and northeastern Wyoming. Several fires in northern
California are producing localized light density smoke.
Central US...
A large are of remnant light density smoke blankets the central
US. Agricultural burns in the Mississippi Valley are producing localized
plumes in the area.
Alaska/Northwestern Canada...
Wildfires in the Yukon and a couple in eastern Alaska were responsible
for a layer of thin density smoke stretching from the Yukon westward
over much of central and southern Alaska. The full extent of smoke is
unknown due to cloud cover in the area.
WB
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