DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z June 15, 2011
Southwest US/Southern and Central Plains: Several large wildfires (e.g. Wallow, Horseshoe 2) continue to emit moderately dense to dense smoke that extends across New Mexico and into Texas, central Oklahoma, eastern Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas. Southeast US/eastern North Carolina: A broad area of moderately dense smoke is present over much of the northeastern Gulf extending from the southeast Louisiana coast to central Florida and into the western Atlantic. The origins of this smoke include the Honey Prairie wildfire in the Okefenokee swamp and several other fires in Florida. The Pains Bay wildfire in coastal North Carolina continues to burn and produce an area of moderately dense smoke that extends southeast over the Atlantic. Northeast Alberta/northern Saskatchewan/Northwest Territories: Several wildfires in the vicinity of Lake Athabasca/Reindeer Lake are producing locally dense areas of smoke across northern Saskatchewan. It is likely that areas of dense smoke also exist in northern Alberta but extensive cloud cover from a low pressure system is precluding smoke detection. However, light areas of elongated smoke are visible south of the cloud mass and extend from southeast Alberta into southwest Saskatchewan, northeast Montana, and the western Dakotas. Central/Eastern Canada/Great Lakes Region: A large region of moderately dense smoke is present this afternoon/evening over eastern Ontario and southwest Quebec and extends southward into the central Great Lakes and northern Michigan. This smoke likely originated from the numerous wildfires that continue to burn in northeastern Alberta and northern Saskatchewan. Ramirez/Ruminski THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS 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.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 ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov