DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z August 14, 2011
Western Ontario: Moderately dense to locally dense smoke was seen moving to the east from a couple of wildfires in far western Ontario this evening near the Manitoba border. The smoke was mostly within 150km of the fires by sunset. Mid-Atlantic Coast: The Lateral West fire in the Great Dismal Swamp along the Virginia-North Carolina border became cloud covered this afternoon and evening and the clouds spread across most of Virginia, Maryland and the Delmarva and precluded additional smoke detection. The smoke was last seen off the Atlantic Coast of North Carolina, Virginia, the Delmarva and southern New Jersey, extending approximately 225km offshore. The smoke was light along the eastern periphery and moderately dense closer to the coast. California: Light remnant smoke from a fire in Mariposa county in Yosemite National Park was seen drifting north along the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada reaching into southern El Dorado county by sunset. A more recent smoke plume still attached to the active fire was moving to the northeast into western Nevada. Ruminski 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