DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z October 31, 2020
SMOKE:
California/Oregon/Nevada/Montana/Pacific Ocean…
A few wildfires in California were still producing moderate smoke
this morning. These include the northern flank of the Creek Fire in
Sierra National Forest, the eastern flank of the Red Salmon Complex
in northeastern California, and the Slater/Devil Fire along the border
with Oregon. The Creek Fire was producing heavy smoke near the source
hand had a sizable area of remnant smoke from the past couple days,
which was drifting south with a large plume extending approximately 230
miles into the Pacific Ocean. The smoke emanating from these fires was
being dominated by terrain flow local to each fire.
South Florida…
Scattered light smoke plumes were seen from burns in the agricultural
area near and south of Lake Okeechobee. Smoke was mainly observed moving
off toward the south-southeast.
South Texas/Louisiana/Gulf of Mexico…
Scattered light smoke plumes associated with agricultural burns were
observed moving off toward the south in southeastern Texas where the
smoke had crossed the Rio Grande River and entered Tamaulipas. Light
density smoke plumes are observed along the Coast of southeastern Texas
and southern Louisiana, these plumes are emitting smoke into the Gulf
of Mexico.
Eglin
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