DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0215Z June 19, 2009
Southern Plains to Lower and Mid-Mississippi Valley: The thin to moderately dense remnant smoke seen over the region this morning from fires in the southern Plains over the past few days appeared more spread out by this evening. Some thin smoke had migrated northward to the Iowa/Missouri border while the rest moved eastward across Missouri and Arkansas. Several bands of remnant thin to moderately dense smoke were also seen moving northwestward across Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. Southern and Eastern Canada/Great Lakes Region: Thin to moderately dense remnant smoke stretched from Ontario and the northern Great Lakes region eastward this evening to southeast Newfoundland and the Atlantic Ocean along a frontal boundary. The moderately dense smoke was mostly concentrated along the border of Ontario and Quebec. Another area of moderately dense to very smoke from several active fires was present over north central Ontario. The remnant smoke that was observed this morning over Saskatchewan and Alberta could not be seen this evening due to thick cloud cover over the area. East Canada: Thin remnant smoke now well off the coast of New England was seen stretching across Nova Scotia and southeast Newfoundland to the Labrador Sea. Alaska: An expansive but thin plume of SO2 was seen across the Aleutian Islands and southeast and central Alaska, stretching eastward to Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories. The current OMI SO2 composite of the northern hemisphere showed the S02 plume very well and can be viewed at http://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/OMI/OMISO2/index.html Sheffler More information on additional areas of smoke associated with these fires and others can be found at the locations listed below. THE FORMAT OF THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS BEING MODIFIED. IT WILL NO LONGER DESCRIBE THE VARIOUS PLUMES THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES. THESE PLUMES ARE DEPICTED IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE: JPEG: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/hms.html GIS: http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm KML: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html THIS TEXT PRODUCT WILL CONTINUE TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF SMOKE WHICH HAVE BECOME DETACHED FROM AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE, TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. IT WILL ALSO STILL INCLUDE DESCRIPTIONS OF BLOWING DUST. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THESE CHANGES OR THE SMOKE TEXT PRODUCT IN GENERAL SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov