DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z November 5, 2019
SMOKE: New Mexico/Texas/Oklahoma... The west-east elongated swath of thin to locally moderately dense leftover smoke likely originating from the fires in south central Utah spread quickly to the east across northern New Mexico, northwestern Texas, and western and central Oklahoma where it appeared to be dissipating just prior to sunset. Arizona/New Mexico... A cluster of fires in east central Arizona was responsible for an area of mostly thin density smoke which moved to the east and across the border into west central New Mexico. Moderately dense to locally thick smoke was seen closer to a couple of the fires. Utah... Several fires in south central Utah were producing smoke of varying density which moved off to the southeast during the afternoon nearly reaching the southern Utah-northern Arizona border. North Central California... A persistent fire in western Tehama County of northern California was emitting a moderately dense to thick smoke plume which fanned out and gradually thinned out as it moved to the south in the general direction of the Oakland-San Francisco metro areas. A batch of what are believed to be mainly agricultural fires in the Sacramento Valley north of Sacramento produced many thin to very locally moderately dense smoke plumes with some of them merging to form a larger patch of thin density smoke in that region. South Central and Southeastern U.S... Numerous seasonal type fires were scattered around portions of the South Central and Southeastern U.S. with some visible smoke. Areas of cloud cover inhibited smoke detection from satellite imagery in a few locations within that region. 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