DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z November 18, 2019
SMOKE: Utah/Arizona... A fire in Piute County of south central Utah produced a plume of thin to locally moderate density smoke which spread to the south during the day. In Arizona, a fire in northwestern Coconino County of north central Arizona produced moderate to locally thick density smoke which fanned out and thinned out as it moved to the south. Additional fires in east central Arizona resulted in plumes of varying density smoke affecting that region. California... Thin to locally moderate density smoke fanned out in multiple directions from a fire located in southern San Benito County of west central California. South Central U.S... More seasonal/agricultural type fire activity was detected scattered across portions of the South Central U.S. along with a number of mainly thin density smoke plumes. The more concentrated fire activity was again noted over south central Louisiana along with patches of thin density smoke though cloudiness moving over the region in the afternoon did interfere with detection of smoke 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