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