DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z June 20, 2011
Southeast U.S.: The Honey Prairie wildfire in the Okefenokee Swamp, GA, is producing a very large area of dense smoke that extends the entirety of the Georgia coast and most of the South Carolina coast, and out over the western Atlantic. Wildfires in northern Florida are contributing to moderate density smoke that is visible farther south off the east coast of northern Florida, across the state of Florida, and into the far northeastern Gulf of Mexico. Eastern Arizona/New Mexico/northern Mexico: Several fires in Arizona (Wallow), New Mexico, and northern Mexico continue to emit light to moderate density smoke plumes that stretch across new Mexico and into the Texas panhandle. Southern and central plains/Lower Mississippi River Valley: Numerous large wildfires in east Texas have produced several localized areas of moderate smoke that drifted north into southeast Oklahoma, northwest Louisiana, and Arkansas this evening. Northeast Alberta/northwest Saskatchewan/Northwest Territories: Wildfires in this tri-corner area are responsible for moderate smoke as well as locally dense smoke that is visible wrapping around a surface anticyclone on the northeast corner of Lake Athabasca. This remnant smoke is observed stretching as far south and east as north central Manitoba. Ramirez 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