DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0245Z June 14, 2013
SMOKE Central/Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley/Southeastern US: An extremely large area of remnant smoke from the numerous wildfires burning in New Mexico and Colorado covers much of New Mexico and eastern Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and northern Texas and then bends to the southeast across Missouri and Arkansas into the Gulf Coast states and exits off the southeast coast off of Florida, South Carolina, Georgia and North Carolina. The thickest smoke is seen across the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles and into western Kansas. However, it is likely that more dense smoke is near the sources of the fires in Colorado and New Mexico but extensive cloud cover from convection is precluding accurate smoke detection in this area. Northern Great Lakes to Southeast Canada: Numerous large wildfires that have been burning across Manitoba and Quebec for several days have generated an area of remnant smoke that extends from the fires in central Quebec to the southwest across the the upper peninsula of Michigan, Lake Superior and into Minnesota and Wisconsin. The thickest smoke was associated with a large fire complex just east of James Bay with the smoke moving to the south. An area of moderately dense to dense smoke also covered the upper peninsula of Michigan and Lake Superior. BLOWING DUST West Texas/New Mexico: A thunderstorm complex over West Texas has produced strong outflow winds that have generated an area of blowing dust that moved westward across far west Texas, including the El Paso area, northern Chihuahua and southwest New Mexico. Nevada/Utah: There were several sources of blowing dust this afternoon/evening over Nevada, mainly across northern and central portion of the state. The largest and most dense area of blowing dust was originating from Churchill county and moving to the east. Additional dust was being kicked up in northwest Utah over the Bonneville Salt flats, although clouds were hindering the full extent of the dust in this region. Ruminski 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