DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0332Z June 19, 2010
Alberta/Saskatchewan/Manitoba/Northwest Territories: A large area of smoke was seen this evening over northern Alberta, the extreme southern portion of the Northwest Territories, the northern half of Saskatchewan and western portions of Manitoba. The smoke was mostly light to moderate in density but there were several areas near the numerous wildfires that featured extremely dense smoke. Northeast US/Southeast Canada: Remnant smoke, mainly from a large wildfire in southern Quebec, covered New England, eastern New York and northern New Jersey as well as the area from the Gulf of St Lawrence south into the northern Atlantic including Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. An area of moderate to very dense smoke was embedded within this larger mass and extended from southern and eastern Maine into the Atlantic. Central Plains: An area of moderate to extremely dense remnant smoke from a large fire in south central Colorado was moving east across eastern Kansas into eastern Iowa and northern Missouri. Hanna 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.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 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