DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z Thursday, September 5, 2020
SMOKE:
Western U.S./Pacific...
Intense wildfire activity was observed emitting very thick smoke across
much of California, Oregon, and Washington State today. The SQF Complex,
August Complex, North Complex, Red Salmon Complex and Slink Fires, along
with a relatively new fire in south central Oregon and the White River
Fire in north-central Oregon were observed emitting thick smoke this
afternoon. The smoke, starting at the SQF complex in Sequoia National
Park, extends east-northeast into the central Valley, where the smoke
moves north. Once the smoke enters northern California, the smoke moves
north-northeast to northeast over Oregon. The Red Salmon and August
Complexes have thick continuous smoke plumes extending between 150 and
200 miles away from the parent fire. In addition to this new smoke,
light to moderate density remnant smoke from fire activity in California
and Oregon over the past few days exists out over the Pacific Ocean,
southwestern Canada, the Pacific Northwest, the Intermountain West,
and the Great Plains. Much of the remnant smoke is moving off towards
the east or southeast.
Southern Montana into the Great Plains and Great Lakes...
Wildfire activity across southern Montana, as well as the Cameron Peak
fire in north-central Colorado, is contributing some smoke to the remnant
smoke layer described above. Smoke from the fires in southern Montana
is moving east while smoke from the Cameron Peak Fire started moving
east-southeast this afternoon.
DUST…
Far eastern tropical Atlantic…
A layer of Saharan Dust was observed moving west off the African West
Coast. The leading edge of this layer had moved west of the Cabo Verde
Islands by sundown in the area.
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