DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1432Z June 20, 2011
Southeast U.S.: Once again very dense smoke can be seen from the Honey Prairie fire in SE GA, the good news is that it extends eastward with the most dense areas near the fire but mainly offshore Georgia and far NE FL. Thin and moderate smoke from this along with additions from the Espanola and Little Lake George Wilderness fires can be seen covering the northern third to half of the FL Peninsula (S Brevard to Manatee county and northward) and just offshore of Tampa Bay. Thin smoke extends northward along the SC and NC coastlines and offshore as far north as the frontal boundary around 35N extending SE to the Atlantic Ocean. Central Plains/N Mexico: Thin to moderately dense smoke from the fires located in the Mexican Plateau has drifted northeastward under the center of the ridge being pulled up on the SE side of a developing cyclone across NE CO and W NE. Smoke is contained mostly in the warm sector (east of the dry line) across Central TX, W OK, Western KS and Central NE and begins to turn SEward across SW MO, AR, W TN and N MS before it becomes too faint to distinguish. Central/Northern Canada: Large stationary cyclone over East-central Alberta continues to pull dense smoke from the NE Alberta/N Saskatchewan/N Manitoba/S NW Territories fires back toward the west and northwest covering nearly all of the NW Territories (esp. dense over Great Slave Lake and westward), SE portions of Nunavut and N Saskatchewan and N Manitoba (where it thins out to a 25-40km wide strip of smoke. Gallina 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