DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z June 21, 2011
Blowing Dust: Several areas of blowing dust originated this evening in western Texas near the New Mexico border. Dust point sources are located in Andrews County, TX and the counties south and west of the city of Lubbock. A strong storm system to the northwest of this area is helping to push the blowing dust to the east. By sunset, the dust approached Kiowa and Comanche Counties, both in southwestern Oklahoma. Florida/Georgia/Carolinas: Very dense smoke continues to be seen from the Honey Prairie fire in SE GA this evening. Most of this smoke moved to the east; however, northern portions of Duval County, FL (Jacksonville) experienced some dense smoke. Remnant smoke also moved east to west over the Florida peninsula this evening. This smoke is believed to be from the Espanola and Little Lake George Wilderness fires, originating in central Florida. Thin smoke continues to extend northward along the SC and NC coastlines. Texas: Wildfires across central Texas produced dense smoke this evening. In particular, a wildfire in Nolan County, TX produced smoke which moved east and northeast around the city of Abilene. Another wildfire in Howard County, TX (northeast of Midland and Odessa) produced dense smoke which generally moved to the northeast. Arizona: The Wallow wildfire in Arizona produced smoke which increased in density throughout the evening. The smoke from this wildfire moved to the south and east and approached White Sands, NM by sunset. Myrga From earlier: Central Plains/N Mexico: Thin to moderately dense smoke from the fires located in the Mexican Plateau has drifted northeastward under the center of the ridge being pulled up on the SE side of a developing cyclone across NE CO and W NE. Smoke is contained mostly in the warm sector (east of the dry line) across Central TX, W OK, Western KS and Central NE and begins to turn SEward across SW MO, AR, W TN and N MS before it becomes too faint to distinguish. Central/Northern Canada: Large stationary cyclone over East-central Alberta continues to pull dense smoke from the NE Alberta/N Saskatchewan/N Manitoba/S NW Territories fires back toward the west and northwest covering nearly all of the NW Territories (esp. dense over Great Slave Lake and westward), SE portions of Nunavut and N Saskatchewan and N Manitoba (where it thins out to a 25-40km wide strip of smoke. Gallina THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME DETACHED FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE..TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ARE ALSO DESCRIBED. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF THESE AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO THE SOURCE FIRE 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 ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov