DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0123Z July 19, 2010
Smoke: Northeast US: A large area of remnant smoke from fires in central Canada emitted earlier this week continues has become thin in density and extends from Norfolk, VA and the Eastern Shore of Maryland/DE across the North Atlantic to the SE coasts of Nova Scotia and SE coastline of Newfoundland. The area continues to move relatively quickly E to ESE. Minnesota: The thin area of smoke over W MN early this morning has sunk SE and currently resides on the MN side of the Mississippi River from the Twin cites to the IA boarder. Central Canada/Hudson Bay: Dense smoke can be seen over Hudson Bay moving S and then SW (across NE Ontario/Manitoba) on the eastern side of well amplified ridge across Central Canada. Moderate to dense smoke can be seen over the north and western sides of the ridge in N continental Nunavut, E NW Territories back to the sources in Saskatchewan and SW Nunavut... Thin smoke covers the entire area of the ridge across Central Canada and into the slow moving well defined cyclone over the NW Manitoba lakes. Southeast: General area of haze and unknown aerosols can be seen south and east of the frontal boundary and extends from the Central Gulf (near 26.5N90W) across the W FL Panhandle, S GA and Coastal SC before it extends due east into the Atlantic. Kansas/Missouri: Remnant smoke from a last night's output of the NW Colorado's Indian Valley fire can be seen moving ESE across extreme SE KS into SW MO (Elk county, KS to Wright county, MO). The area is in the middle to upper levels of the troposphere and is very thin in nature and can be distinguished from lower level haze across KS and N MO that is moving more northward. Dust/Sand: Idaho: A 25-50km wide plume of moderate to dense sand can be seen moving ENE on the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Lab Site located between US 26 and SR-22/33 in Butte county, ID. The sand covers nearly all of Yellowstone N.P. and into SW Carbon county MT and Cody, WY. Nevada: A plume of moderately dense sand/dust/salt from the Caron Sink in northern Churchill county, NV is moving just a bit north of due E and is covering Central Lander county into C Eureka county. Gallina 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