DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1730Z August 15, 2020
SMOKE: Colorado to the Mid and Lower Mississippi Valley... Four ongoing wildfires in the northwestern and north-central part of Colorado are producing a large moderate to think density plume that extends east-southeastward over most of Kansas, the northern Texas Panhandle, and northern Oklahoma. Beyond this thicker plume, a light density plume covers the Red River area of Texas and Oklahoma and parts of the Mid and Lower Mississippi valley. Southern Texas/Northern Mexico... A detached light density plume is detected over the area moving to the west-southwest. California... A wildfire in the Six Rivers National Forest continues to burn and is producing a light to moderate density plume that is moving off to the northwest. Near Babbitt Peak in the northeastern part of the state, a wildfire is producing a small moderate density plume that extends to the northeast into northwestern Nevada. A large light density plume from wildfires west of Lancaster covers most of the southern part of the state. DUST: Tropical Atlantic... A thin plume of Saharan dust moving westward covers the central tropical Atlantic. Konon 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