Monday, February 10, 2020

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z February 11, 2020

SMOKE:
Pacific Coast states…
From central Washington into central California, a handful of fires
were observed producing light smoke. One fire in northern California
was producing more moderate density smoke that was moving off towards
the southwest into the Pacific Ocean.

Southeastern CONUS…
Across Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, a couple fires were observed
producing light to moderate density smoke. Scattered to broken cloud
cover was also observed over the region, which may obscure further smoke
across the southeastern CONUS and also may obscure the extent of the
smoke plumes.

Mexico...
A light-density plume consisting of a mix of industrial and biomass
burning smoke could be seen off the eastern coast of Mexico, the western
Gulf of Mexico, and the Bay of Campeche. Further smaller plumes were
observed throughout central Mexico. Much of the larger plume of smoke,
which had a few moderate density plumes contributing to the larger plume,
was observed moving off towards the northwest, then the north.

BLOWING DUST:
Southern/Central Nevada…
Two sources of Blowing Dust in Nevada were observed emanating impressive
dust plumes. The more impressive plume is emanating from a dry lake bed
just south-southeast of Tonopah in Nye County and extending approximately
60 miles to the southeast. Another source in Nye County about 90 miles
northeast of the previous source is producing a lighter plume of blowing
dust that was extending south-southwest about 40 miles.


Hosley


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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.