DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z September 28, 2021
SMOKE:
Southwestern/Central U.S., Canada, and Mexico/Pacific...
The KNP Complex fire in the Sequoia National Park of southern California
continued to produce an area of light (with large areas of moderate to
thick) smoke extending from the Pacific off the U.S. west coast inland and
covers the most of the western U.S., the central U.S., northern Mexico,
and continues inland where it is combining with smoke from recent heavy
seasonal burning then extends north into central Canada and through
sections of the eastern United States over the Atlantic Ocean south
of New England. A large area of heavy density smoke covered southern
California and extends northeast over Nevada/Utah/Arizona and extends
north into Idaho and Colorado. Smoke also travels to the southwest
approximately 1,400 miles over the Pacific Ocean. Several wildfires were
also observed over central Idaho and central-southern Montana producing
light to locally moderate smoke progressing mostly to the northeast.
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