DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200 June 13, 2013
Western Plains / Central US: Large wildfires active in Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado are responsible for high density remnant smoke “ribbons” that stretch over central New Mexico, eastern Colorado, the Texas panhandle, Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Missouri, and southern Illinois and Indiana. Lower Mississippi Valley / Gulf of Mexico / Southeast US: Several agricultural burns with associated small smoke puffs have created a broad area of light density smoke over the lower Mississippi River Valley, the northern Gulf of Mexico, southern Alabama, northern Florida, and Georgia. Part of this smoke has also originated from the large wildfires in Colorado. Canada: Numerous smoke producing wildfires are scattered mainly throughout northern Manitoba and northern Quebec. An elongated light density remnant smoke plume stretches from southern Nunavut south into Saskatchewan and Manitoba and then east across the Hudson Bay as far as western Newfoundland. Heavy remnant smoke is mostly confined to northern Saskatchewan this evening. Ramirez 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