DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z August 15, 2011
Ontario: The main smoke area visible in satellite imagery this evening is over central Ontario. Two wildfire clusters continue to burn over the far western portion of the province near the Manitoba border with the smoke moving eastward and nearly reaching James Bay by sunset. The more southern fire in or near the Woodland Caribou Provincial Park became quite active in the afternoon and evening, generating a plume of thick smoke moving to the east. Mid Atlantic: The Lateral West fire in the Great Dismal Swamp was still burning this afternoon and evening, as detected in satellite imagery. However, extensive cloud cover prohibited smoke detection. The low level wind flow in the area suggests the smoke would move to the northeast along and off the Delmarva and New Jersey coasts. California: Fires in Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks continued to burn at a relatively low level this evening producing plumes of light smoke that were mainly spreading eastward over the Sierra Nevada. Nevada: Blowing dust was observed originating over west central Nevada from the Carson Sink in Churchill county and from the Black Rock Desert in northwest Pershing county. These dust plumes were moving to the east into north central Nevada. 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