Tuesday, June 25, 2013

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0430Z June 26, 2013

Central & Eastern US:
An expansive area of remnant thin to moderately dense smoke covered
nearly all of the Northeast, much of the western Atlantic, the Ohio
Valley, and the bulk of the central to northern Plains stretching into
southern Canada.  Cloud cover over some of the Northern Plains may have
prevented the detection of additional remnant smoke.  Smoke is mostly
due in part to large wildfires located across the southwestern US with
some of the smoke over the Northeast US also possibly mixed with smoke
traveling southeastward from Canada/Alaska where several large wildfires
have been burning.

Western Gulf of Mexico/Southern Texas:
A large area of remnant dust was seen moving across the western Gulf of
Mexico and into southern Texas.

Nevada:
Blowing dust could be seen moving across the northern part of the state
this evening from about 22z-03z.

Canada:
Numerous wildfires over parts of Quebec/Manitoba/Northwest
Territories/Yukon Territory were producing moderately dense to dense
smoke that covered a large portion of the country. Smoke from wildfires
in Alaska was also filtering eastward across the Yukon and Northwest
Territories.

Alaska:
Moderately dense to dense smoke from numerous wildfires continue to
burn and produce smoke across the state. The remnant smoke was spreading
northwestward towards Siberia and eastward towards Canada.

Sheffler


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.