DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1830Z May 30, 2012
Southeast US: An area of remnant smoke covered the northeast Gulf of Mexico and parts of Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida as it became entrained into T.D. Beryl along the Southeast coast. This smoke was from fires along the Mississippi River Valley and from the large fire in New Mexico. Northeast US: A patch of remnant smoke was present over parts of New York, Lake Ontario, Vermont, and southeast Quebec. Clouds over the Northeast US may be obscuring more smoke though. This smoke either originated from the Baldy-Whitewater fire in NM or from fires in the Mississippi River Valley. Southwest US/Southern Plains: A large area of moderately dense to dense smoke was floating eastward across eastern New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle with thin smoke spreading east across north Texas, western Oklahoma, and southwest Kansas. Additional dense smoke was present near the source, the Baldy-Whitewater fire, in southwest New Mexico. Two fires in southwest Colorado had also produced smoke yesterday which still existed in a thin layer over eastern Utah and Colorado. Mexico: Numerous fires in Mexico had produced thin remnant smoke over the northwest part of the country that had drifted into Presidio and Brewster counties in Texas. Northwest and South Central Canada/Northern US Plains & Midwest: Aerosol thought to be elevated dust particles was seen over much of the Midwest and the Northern Plains states in the U.S. and spread northward towards Canada where it merged with an extensive area of remnant smoke. The smoke over Canada stretched from near the Beaufort Sea over Northwest Territories southeast across the country to Manitoba/western Ontario and is believed to be from a combination of fires in Alberta/Saskatchewan and from smoke that had travelled across the Pacific from Asia. Sheffler 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