Monday, June 20, 2011

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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.