DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1730Z July 3, 2014
SMOKE: Canada/U.S: Smoke from wildfires continuing to burn across much of Northwest Territories and northern Alberta/Sasketchewan are producing a large area of smoke moving across all of central Canada into the Northern/Central Plains and east into the northern/central Mississippi Valley, Upper Great Lakes region and currently moving into the Ohio, Tennessee and the Lower Mississippi Valley. The thickest area of smoke stretches across a large section of central/eastern Northwest Territories with a moderately dense section over S Alberta and Saskatchewan and south into NE Montana, W North Dakota, most of South Dakota and into SW Minnesota and NW Iowa. Another moderately dense section extends into E Minnesota and NW Wisconsin. Smoke can be seen as far south as Arkansas and E Oklahoma. J Kibler THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF 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.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/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