DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1730Z June 17, 2009
Southern Plains: A thin to moderately dense haze covered parts of Oklahoma,Kansas,Missouri,and Arkansas in this morning's satellite imagery. The haze, which may be remnant smoke from separate areas of fire in New Mexico and eastern Arkansas yesterday, was moving eastward across Kansas and Missouri while staying nearly stationary over Oklahoma and Arkansas. Southern Canada/Northern Plains: The large area of remnant smoke over southern Canada observed yesterday was spread out from southern Saskatchewan eastward to central Quebec and southward to North Dakota and eastern Montana. This smoke was mostly thin in appearance except near an active fire in central Saskatchewan that had moderately dense to very dense smoke. Other small areas of thin to moderately dense remnant smoke were observed near the Saskatchewan/Alberta border moving east and southeastward. Northeast US/East Canada: Thin remnant smoke was seen stretching from just off the New England coastline across east Maine to north of Newfoundland and was moving to the east. Alaska: A thin haze presumed to be remnant smoke from Alaskan fires was seen drifting back to the west across northeast Alaska and the northern Yukon Territory. Sheffler More information on additional areas of smoke associated with these fires and others can be found at the locations listed below. 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