DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z May 16, 2011
Arizona: An area of blowing dust began along the Coconino County/Navajo County line around 2015Z. This dust plume moved to the northeast and approached the Four Corners region by sunset. Utah: Numerous dust plumes were viewed this evening in Utah. Four separate point sources in Iron County produced dust plumes this evening in the Escalante Desert near the town of Beryl. These plumes began around 1745Z and moved to the NNE/NE. Three separate point sources along the Beaver County/Millard County line produced dust plumes this evening. Some of these areas extended northward to Sevier Lake as well. The plumes began around 2015Z and moved to the NNE/NE. The dust originating in Utah moved as far north as the Great Salt Lake and approached the Utah/Idaho border by sunset. Myrga From earlier: Alberta/Saskatchewan/Southern Manitoba/Ontario/Southeast Northwest Territory: Wildfires continue to burn over portions of central to northeast Alberta this evening. Large plumes of moderately dense to dense smoke are seen moving northerly around the western edge of a high pressure system. Light residual smoke from these wildfires is pushing north over parts of northern Alberta/Saskatchewan and east across the southeast sections of the Northwest Territories. Another area of residual smoke is seen moving south across Ontario and then west across southern Manitoba and southeast Saskatchewan. Kibler 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