DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z June 18, 2010

Alberta/Saskatchewan/Manitoba/Northwest Territories:
A broad area of smoke was seen this morning over northwest Manitoba,
the area of Northwest Territories south of Great Slave Lake and nearly
all of the northern half of Alberta and Saskatchewan. The smoke was
mostly light density but there were several patches of moderately dense
smoke mixed in. The smoke over Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba was
generally moving south.

Northeast US/Southeast Canada:
Remnant smoke, mainly from a large wildfire in southern Quebec, covered
New England, eastern New York and eastern Pennsylvania as well as the
area from the Gulf of St Lawrence south into the northern Atlantic
including Newfoundland and
Nova Scotia. An area of moderately dense smoke embedded within this
larger mass extended from southern and eastern Maine across Nova Scotia.

Central Plains:
An area of remnant smoke from a large fire in south central Colorado was
moving east across Kansas and southern Nebraska. Moderately dense to dense
smoke was seen stretching from western Kansas east northeastward across
northern Kansas along the Nebraska border and just reaching the northwest
Missouri border. A very thin area of remnant smoke from the same fire
appears to also stretch along an east west axis over central Colorado.

Ruminski

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.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/land/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

Unless otherwise indicated:

Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.

Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.

A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.

Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.