DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0332Z July 1, 2011
Central United States to Southern Ontario: A broad area of moderately dense to extremely dense smoke covered most of the the Mid Mississippi Valley, Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region this evening. Most of the smoke originated from the large wildfires burning in New Mexico. The smoke covers most of the area from the Arklatex region northeast towards southern portions of Ontario. The extremely dense area of smoke appeared to be from portions of northern Illinois northeast towards southern Ontario. A dense area of smoke was also observed near the Los Alamos fire in northern New Mexico. Carolina Coast/Atlantic Ocean: The Juniper Road fire in Pender County, NC continues to produce a large moderately dense to extremely dense smoke plume this evening that extends from southeastern North Carolina along the coast of South Carolina towards southern Georgia and northern portions of the Florida Peninsula. Lighter smoke extended west from there along the Gulf Coast towards portions of eastern Louisiana. Canada: Although a lack of evening satellite imagery made smoke analysis difficult in this region, it is believed an area of light to locally moderately dense smoke extended from northern Alberta and Saskatchewan towards Nunavut and Hudson Bay. The source for this smoke is likely the continuing wild fires in the Lake Athabasca area along the northern Alberta/Saskatchewan border. Gulf of Mexico/Texas: A large area of Saharan dust covered a good portion of the Gulf of Mexico and extended into the Gulf Coast of Texas this evening. Hanna 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