DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z February 24, 2020
SMOKE:
Hawaii…
The large fire in the western portion of Kahoolawe Island in the Hawaiian
Island chain continued to emit moderately dense to locally thick smoke
which fanned out and gradually thinned out in density as it spread to
the south off the west coast of the Big Island.
New Jersey…
Similar to yesterday, fires in central and south central New Jersey
produced smoke plumes of thin to locally moderate density which spread
quickly to the east before the plumes merged to form a larger area of
leftover smoke which moved well off the New Jersey coast out over the
Atlantic south of Long Island.
Southeastern U.S…
A few smoke plumes were visible over southern and central Florida, the
Florida panhandle, southern Georgia, and South Carolina though increasing
cloud cover greatly limited additional smoke plume detection.
North Central California…
Fires in the Sacramento Valley produced thin to locally moderate density
smoke in that region.
DUST:
Oregon/Idaho…
Significant swaths of thick density blowing dust originated from sources
in Lake County of south central Oregon and quickly spread to the east
while gradually thinning out. Additional smaller bands of moderate to
thick blowing density blowing dust were visible a bit farther to the
east and southeast over southeastern Oregon. The dust from all of these
sources moved into southwestern Idaho prior to sunset.
Washington/Oregon…
Numerous bands of mainly thin to perhaps locally moderately dense blowing
dust originated from sources in central and south central Washington and
north central Oregon and moved rapidly to the east with the leading edge
of the dust likely reaching northern and central Idaho by late in the day.
Nevada…
A few patches of moderate density blowing dust could be seen emanating
from sources in northwestern Nevada and moving to the east over north
central Nevada.
Western Texas/Southeastern New Mexico…
A swath of moderate density blowing dust was seen originating from
the Salt Basin Dunes in western Texas and moving quickly to the
east paralleling the border of southern New Mexico and Western
Texas. Additional thinner density blowing dust was emanating from
a number of sources in south central and southeastern New Mexico
and moving eastward. More blowing dust was visible originating from
sources in west Texas between Lubbock and Midland. This dust spread to
the east and northeast headed in the general direction of southwestern
Oklahoma-northwestern Texas border.
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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