DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z June 29, 2011
New Mexico into the Central and Southern Plains: A large area of smoke from several wildfires burning in New Mexico was seen stretching much of central and eastern New Mexico into extreme southeast Colorado, the Texas Panhandle, all of Oklahoma and into western Arkansas and Missouri. An arm of the smoke was being drawn north over eastern Kansas into eastern Nebraska. Another batch of smoke was circulating clockwise across northeast Texas and then curling westward into west Texas extending back to near Midland. The areas of moderately dense and dense smoke were mainly confined to eastern New Mexico near the fires, with additional patches over west Texas north of the Big Bend. US Atlantic Coast/Offshore: The Juniper Road wildfire in Pender county in southeast North Carolina was very active through the night as seen in infrared satellite imagery. While extensive cloudiness hindered accurate determination of the extent and density of the smoke with this fire, it generally was being channeled to the northeast into the Western Atlantic ahead of a cold front that was moving into northeast North Carolina this morning. Remnant smoke had also drifted south and southwest along eastern South Carolina and Georgia to near Jacksonville. Most of the smoke appeared to be light to the south of the fire with areas of moderately dense to dense smoke to the northeast. Northwest Mexico: An area of very thin remnant smoke was seen over northwest Mexico and covering much of the Gulf of California. This is smoke from the numerous fires in Chihuahua and Durango that have been burning for weeks. Western Great Lakes: A ribbon of thin smoke was seen stretching from north central Wisconsin and extending to the southeast into northern Indiana. The source of the smoke is not entirely clear but likely from the wildfires in Canada. Ontario: Two areas of light smoke were detected from northwest into south central Ontario (just north of the eastern end of Lake Superior) and moving to the south. This is remnant smoke from fires in northwest Ontario. Northern Canada: Numerous wildfires continue to burn around Lake Athabasca in northern Alberta/northern Saskatchewan. An extensive area of smoke extends mainly to the east and northeast across far northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, eastern Northwest Territories, southern Nunavut and across much of northern Hudson Bay. Clouds hinder the analysis but the most dense smoke appears to extend to the northeast reaching northwest Hudson Bay. Another small area of light smoke was seen extending east/west from northeast Yukon into Northwest Territories. 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