DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z September 16, 2011
Gulf of Mexico/Southeast US/Mid-Atlantic/Northeast US: A large area of thin smoke stretched across the northern Gulf of Mexico this morning and extended northeastward across Florida along a frontal boundary before disappearing beneath clouds off the South Carolina coast. Much of this smoke originated from the fires in southeast Georgia and northeast Florida but smoke could have also come from fires along the Lower Mississippi River Valley yesterday. Great Lakes Region: The Pagami Creek wildfire in northeast Minnesota was emitting thin to moderate density smoke this morning that spread out across western Lake Superior and the northwest U.P. of Michigan. Central Canada: An area of remnant smoke extended from western Hudson Bay southward across western portions of Ontario and southeast towards the Ontario/Quebec border. Some of this smoke is likely from the Pagami Creek fire in Minnesota. However, the smoke that had reached further north to Hudson Bay was probably from the fires in southern Saskatchewan, southern Manitoba, North Dakota, and northwest Minnesota; caused by an upper level system lifting across the region. Sheffler 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