DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0145Z July 4, 2009
SO2: The band of SO2 has remained nearly stationary all day across a narrow line (30-50km wide N to S) across BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and N Manitoba from N Queen Charlotte island, to the SE kink in the BC/Alberta province line across Cree and Reindeer Lake to the Manitoba coast of Hudson Bay. Alaska: Large amounts of moderate to dense smoke cover nearly all of Alaska...but are connected to their source fires... please see graphic or GIS below. Texas: A detached pocket of moderately dense smoke can be seen over SW Lavaca, far NE DeWtt and SE Gonzales county moving NE. This smoke came from a fire in central Victoria county. Gulf States: A layer of low level haze extends SE across NE TX/SE OK, across LA to the mouth of the Mississippi River then extends E-W across the northern GoM and across N FL between Ceder Key and Pasco county on the west coast... across to Duval to N Brevard county and then out into the Sargasso Sea over the Gulf Stream. Smoke also can be seen connected to fires across N CA, C CA, and SE CA. Gallina More information on the areas of smoke described above as well as 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