Saturday, June 26, 2010

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z June 27, 2010

Hawaii:
The plume seen earlier today moving west southwester off the Big Island
was mistakenly drawn in as smoke.  The aerosol coming from this region
is actually a mixture of steam and SO2 from the volcano Kilauea.

Western Oregon/Northern California:
A fire in southern Coos county is producing a light to moderately dense
plume of smoke moving south across Curry and Josephine counties in Oregon
and into Humboldt and Del Norte counties in California

Another fire burning in Douglas county in southern Oregon is emitting
light smoke south into Klamath and Jackson counties.

S Central Canada/Great Lakes/New England and Mid-Atlantic:
The smoke seen earlier today continues to move east into the Atlantic
Ocean.


From Earlier Today:

N Central Canada:
An elongated plume of dense smoke, oriented northwest to southeast
is still seen over portions of southeastern Northwest Territories,
northeastern Alberta, and northern and northeastern Saskatchewan.
This smoke plume from numerous fires burning across southeast Northwest
Territories, northern Saskatchewan and western Manitoba now extends
across the Great Lakes region, northeastern U.S. and Mid-Atlantic States.
The most dense smoke is seen wrapping around a low pressure system that
is located near the northern Alberta and northern Saskatchewan border
and also extends southeast across northern Saskatchewan and into portions
of northwestern Manitoba.

S Central Canada/Great Lakes/New England and Mid-Atlantic:
As mentioned in the above N Central Canada discussion, smoke from fire in
N Central Canada stretches across the Great Lakes, over the northeast
U.S., across the Ohio River Valley, and into the Mid-Atlantic. An
area of dense smoke was seen over southwestern Ontario.  An area of
moderately dense smoke from the same fires in N Central Canada does
extend southeast across western Ontario and over western sections of
Lake Superior.  A second area of moderately dense smoke was observed in
satellite imagery stretched across eastern Ohio, southern Pennsylvania,
northern West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, southern New Jersey and out
over the coastal waters of the Mid-Atlantic.

AR/TN/SRN KY:
Area of unknown aerosols and haze was seen in this morning's satellite
imagery over portions of Arkansas, Tennessee, southern Kentucky. Based
on yesterday's discussion an area of unknown aerosols was analyzed
over northern Texas through Arkansas and eastward off the coast of the
Carolinas.  It is believed that the area of unknown aerosols mentioned
yesterday have shifted to the east over AR/TN/southern KY.

Southwest U.S.:
A thin, almost ribbon like band of unknown aerosols with unknown point
of origin was observed in the morning satellite imagery drifting east
and extending from the Gulf of California north-northeast across central
Arizona and into south-central Utah.


Warren

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.