DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z July 1, 2012
Utah/Rockies/The Plains/Most of the US east of Mississippi: Multiple and very large wildfires across eastern Nevada and central Utah are creating a large area of dense to very dense smoke extending across northern and central Utah, western Wyoming and Colorado. The very dense smoke from these fires are combining with the smoke from the Wyoming wildfires and stretching the dense smoke into parts of eastern Wyoming and large section of the Central Plains and the Mississippi Valley. An area of moderately dense smoke extends into southern/central Illinois, most of Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, and parts of southern Michigan, western Pennsylvania and northern Virginia. Lighter smoke extend to the east coast and as far south as southern Florida and the northern/central sections of the Gulf of Mexico. There are some rather large fires burning across central Nebraska, Kansas and parts of Florida that are just adding to the overall smoke density and coverage in the central/eastern US. J Kibler 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