DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z July 1, 2011
Central United States: A broad area of smoke covered most of the nation's midsection this evening. Most of the smoke was from the large wildfires burning in New Mexico being drawn northward ahead of a frontal system extending from the northern Plains into the central Rockies. The smoke covers most of the area from north Texas northward across the Plains into eastern North Dakota and Minnesota and extends as far east as the western Great Lakes and the lower Mississippi Valley. Much of this is light density but there is a substantial area of moderately dense and dense smoke near the fire source close to Los Alamos and also over the eastern Dakotas, much of Nebraska and eastern Kansas. Carolina Coast/Atlantic Ocean: The Juniper Road fire in Pender County, NC continues to emit dense smoke this evening. The smoke was generally moving southward along the southern North Carolina and South Carolina coasts and was being carried onshore with the afternoon/evening sea breeze. Gulf Coast: Moderately dense to locally dense smoke from the Possum Road fire in Baldwin County, AL was drifting south into the Gulf of Mexico this evening. A broader area of light smoke mixed with haze was seen across much of the northern Gulf and into southeast Louisiana. The smoke is likely a mix of remnant smoke from the Possum Road and Juniper Road fires. Canada: Fresh, dense smoke from fires south of Lake Athabasca along the northern Alberta/Saskatchewan border was moving to the east across northern Saskatchewan. Remnant light to moderately dense smoke from this and other fires around Lake Athabasca has been pulled to the northeast across central Nunavut and topping northern Hudson Bay before circulating to the southeast around an area of high pressure and moving into Baffin Island and northern Quebec. Moderately dense smoke was seen lifting north from a fire on the western shore of Great Bear Lake in northern Northwest Territories. Ruminski/Hanna 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