DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1500Z June 1, 2013
***PLEASE NOTE: GOES-13 has been replaced with GOES-14. GOES-14 is centered at 00N105W which is 30 degrees further west than GOES-13. This position has an impact on the ability to detect smoke, particularly light smoke in the evening, compared to GOES-13. It is possible that areas of light smoke that would be detected previously are now not discernible.*** Northeast US/Atlantic Seaboard: An area of mixed aerosols with some smoke possibly mixed in over much of the northeast. Portion of this plume that extends southwest from the Atlantic over eastern Virginia and North Carolina has a better chance of having a higher concentration of smoke than other aerosols as smoke from fires that were seen burning across the southeastern U.S. has moved north and east. Still very difficult to determine other sources of smoke from this aerosol plume given the continued expansive cloud cover across much of the south and central portions of the U.S. that has been rather persistent over the past week. New Mexico/Texas/Oklahoma/Mexico: Remnant thin density smoke from large wildfires burning across northern New Mexico has spread out south and east this morning. Area is somewhat elongated stretching from central Oklahoma southeast across central Texas then curving back to the northwest from western Texas to eastern New Mexico. A separate plume of remnant thin density smoke originating from fires burning across southwestern Chihuahua state in north-central Mexico is spreading north and east across central Chihuahua and mixing with the remnant smoke from the New Mexico fires over southwest Texas. Warren THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF 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