DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z February 9, 2020
SMOKE:
South Central U.S…
Seasonal fire activity was responsible for scattered mainly thin
density smoke plumes across central and eastern Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas,
and Louisiana.
Northern Florida/Southern Georgia…
Scattered thin density smoke plumes were seen with a number of fires
over southern Georgia and northern Florida during the afternoon.
Southeastern California/Southern Nevada/Northwestern Arizona…
A fire near the Colorado River along the border of California and Arizona
was producing locally moderate to thick density smoke which initially
moved to the north and quickly fanned out and thinned in density as it
spread over far southeastern California, northwestern Arizona, and up
over southern Nevada to the southeast of Las Vegas.
DUST:
California…
An aerosol which was believed to be thinner density blowing dust
was visible moving to the south over the Sacramento Valley and San
Joaquin Valley with the western edge reaching the San Francisco Bay
region. Farther to the south, a narrow band of relatively dense blowing
dust originated from a source in southeastern Kern County of south
central California and moved quickly to the east nearly reaching the
Nevada border prior to sunset.
Nevada…
Blowing dust of varying density originated from a number of dry lake bed
sources in west central Nevada and moved to the south. A bit farther
to the southeast, a swath of moderate density blowing dust originated
from a dry lake bed in northern Nye County of central Nevada and moved
rapidly to the east reaching the Utah border by sunset.
Utah...
Blowing dust of varying density originated from a few sources over west
central Utah and spread quickly to the south during the afternoon.
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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