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