DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1500Z June 27, 2013
Southwestern/South Central US/Lower Mississippi Valley: A large amount of remnant light to isolated moderate smoke stretched from Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico across the central and southern Plains and into the lower Mississippi Valley. Northeastern Canada: Light remnant smoke from fires in Quebec and Newfoundland stretched from southeastern Canada across the Labrador Sea into Greenland. Central Canada: Scattered areas of light remnant smoke dotted portions of western Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba. This smoke was the result of fires in western Quebec and northern Manitoba. Alaska/Yukon/Northwest Territories: A pall of light remnant smoke from fires in Alaska and Yukon covered a large area from central Alaska eastward throughout the Northwest Territories and Yukon. Southern Canada/Upper Midwest of US: A ribbon of light smoke extended from eastern British Columbia to Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana. The source region for this smoke was somewhat uncertain but believed to be the fires in Manitoba and/or Alaska. 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