DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0145Z May 29, 2009
Northern Plains/Southern Canada: Thin smoke from the past few days in the wheat belts of Dakotas and southern prairies of Canada can be seen moving SE to E continuing to deform/stretch along the trof from James Bay and NE Ontario across Lake Superior into the UP of MI and covering nearly all of WI into E IA. There is general hazy conditions that could be thinner/very faint smoke extending as far as the TX/OK panhandle. A large pocket of thin to moderate smoke from fires today in Manitoba can be seen moving due south covering a large portion of the Red River Valley in ND/MN. On the other side of the cloudy conditions in ND, today's smoke from the numerous fires in SE ND can also be seen moving SSE covering a large portion of SW MN and E SD. Missouri Valley: A pocket of prior days' (2-4 days ago) can be seen over the far NW corner of MO along the Missouri River from St. Joseph, MO, to Kansas City, MO into a larger area of cloudiness moving toward Springfield and Rolla, MO. S Texas: Smoke from Mexican/Guatemalan fires was ingested into a large complex of thunderstorms yesterday into this morning...some of that smoke had be spit out northern side in the low levels within its outflow. The boundary is still visible in imagery and the smoke is generally pooled along it. Return flow into S and SW Texas has pulled the smoke back into TX, covering a large portion of the Rio Grande Valley and toward the Hill country of SW TX toward San Antonio and Austin, TX. Gallina THE FORMAT OF THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS BEING MODIFIED. IT WILL NO LONGER DESCRIBE THE VARIOUS PLUMES THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES. THESE PLUMES ARE DEPICTED IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE: JPEG: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/hms.html GIS: http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm KML: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html THIS TEXT PRODUCT WILL CONTINUE TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF SMOKE WHICH HAVE BECOME DETACHED FROM AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE, TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. IT WILL ALSO STILL INCLUDE DESCRIPTIONS OF BLOWING DUST. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THESE CHANGES OR THE SMOKE TEXT PRODUCT IN GENERAL SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov