Thursday, June 20, 2013

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z June 20, 2013

SMOKE:

Alaska/Yukon and Northwest Territory/Western and Central Canada:
Wildfires burning in Alaska are producing a large area of moderately
dense to dense smoke across sections of western/central Alaska.  A small
linear line of smoke from a wildfire on the Yukon/Alaska border is
emitting smoke north into eastern Alaska with lighter smoke crossing
the border into the Yukon Territory.  An overall large area of light
smoke stretches across much of central/eastern Alaska east into the
territories and norther/central Alberta/Saskatchewan/Manitoba/NW Ontario.
Another small pocket of heavier smoke stretches across eastern Manitoba
and an additional pocket in northern NW Territory.  Smoke is moving
E-ESE in direction.

Central US/Northern and Central Mississippi Valley/Great Lakes:
A large area of smoke from wildfires burning in northwest Mexico,
Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado stretches across a large section of the
central US.  A pocket of very dense smoke extends over most of Kansas and
into northern Oklahoma.  Moderate pockets of smoke extend into western
Kansas/eastern Colorado, western Nebraska, southern South Dakota and
near the wildfires burning in, NW Mexico, New Mexico and Colorado.
The smoke is moving ENE in direction.

J Kibler


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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.