DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1715Z June 22, 2012
Southwest US/West Texas/Northwest Mexico: Several areas of smoke could be seen this morning over northwest Mexico, west Texas, southwest Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, southwest Utah, south Nevada, and southeast California. This smoke is a mix of remnant and new smoke from numerous wildfires burning in the southwest US and in northwest Mexico. North Nevada: A small patch of drifting smoke from fires in Central California could be seen moving northward across Nevada this morning. Central Plains: An area of thin remnant smoke extended from eastern Wyoming southeast across parts of Colorado/Nebraska to north central Kansas. This smoke is believed to mostly be from the High Park fire in north central Colorado. Eastern US: A large area of aerosol covering the eastern US, and stretching from Kentucky/Tennessee eastward across the Atlantic and northeastward into southern Quebec, is believed to be made up of ozone and other unknown aerosols. At the southeastern edge of the hazy mass of aerosols, a band of what is believed to be smoke from a large fire in southeast North Carolina can be seen extending eastward off the coast. This fire was producing new smoke this morning. Eastern Canada: Several fires burning in Labrador over the past few days had produced thin to moderately dense smoke over the southeast part of the province. Another patch of thin remnant smoke had drifted southward across the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Western Canada/North Central US: While several wildfires in Alberta, Northwest Territories, and Yukon Territory were producing smoke across western parts of Canada today, another thin, unknown aerosol could be seen that extended from the Yukon Territory southeast across Canada and the north central US to Minnesota, Iowa, and east Nebraska. This aerosol could not be fully determined to be smoke but may be partially made up of remnant smoke from Asia. Alaska: A large area of smoke covered much of northern Alaska this morning along with other unknown aerosols. This smoke is from numerous wildfires burning in the state. 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