DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1400Z June 22, 2011
Eastern US: Much of the western Atlantic/eastern U.S. coast from northern-most Florida to North Carolina is covered with moderately dense to dense smoke that is originating predominantly from the Honey Prairie wildfire in the Okefenokee Swamp, GA. A larger area of thin density smoke is visible over much of Florida and the northeast Gulf of Mexico as far north as southern Massachusetts. Also contributing to this smoke is the Duckett fire in North Carolina which is emitting dense smoke, the full extent of which cannot be determined due to cloudiness. Central US: A broad area of light remnant smoke is seen from Oklahoma north through Kansas into Nebraska and east into Missouri. This area of light smoke is moving east and likely originated from fires in southwest US as well as central and northern Mexico. Northern Canada: Wildfires in northeast Alberta, northern Saskatchewan, and southern Northwest Territories are collectively responsible for a light to locally dense smoke plume located from eastern Yukon Territory, over the much of the Northwest Territories, southern Nunavut, northern Manitoba, across the Hudson Bay and into central Quebec. -Salemi/Ramirez 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