DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z June 26, 2013
Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona into the Plains: The large wildfires continue to burn in southeast Arizona, southern Colorado, New Mexico and northern Mexico. There is considerable remnant smoke associated with these fires and this morning the area extends eastward across much of New Mexico into the Texas Panhandle and then curves to the northeast across Oklahoma into eastern Kansas, northern Missouri, Iowa and western Minnesota. The area east of the Texas Panhandle is mainly light smoke while portions of the Panhandle, northeast and southern New Mexico have moderate to dense smoke. The smoke is also moderate to dense in some of the mountain valleys in south central Colorado west of Alamosa. Mid Atlantic Coast into the Atlantic: An area of light remnant smoke was seen extending from the Mid Atlantic coast from eastern Maryland and Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, southeast Pennsylvania and New York and the southern New England coast eastward into the Atlantic. Eastern Canada: An area of light remnant smoke was seen over the northern and central coast of Labrador and northern Quebec and was mainly drifting to the east. Northern Canada and Alaska: A broad area of smoke from the many wildfires in northern Manitoba and Alaska was seen extending across much of the border area between Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta and Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Most of this smoke was moving to the west with a large area of moderate to dense smoke in the eastern portion of this region. The numerous wildfires in Alaska area covering much of the state in smoke which is spilling over into the northern Yukon and Northwest Territories as well as the Bering Sea and into the Arctic. Extensive areas of moderate to dense smoke were seen in west central portions of the state. 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