DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1515Z September 11,2013
Mid-Atlantic/S New England: Thin smoke likely combined remnant of smoke from the Central Canadian fires and seasonal prescribed burns across the Lower Mississippi River Valley, can be seen in advance of frontal zone covering all of MD, DE, NJ, SE PA, Long Island, CT, RI and portions of S MA and Coastal Maritime Zone from the mouth of the Chesapeake to Cape Cod and out to sea along 40-42N. This area is moving ENE and could be connected to the area described below across WV but difficult to say as it is very thin/non-existent and in an area of higher weather cloud cover. Lower Mississippi River Valley/Ohio River Valley: Thin smoke from the seasonal prescribed burns across the Lower Mississippi Valley and haze from other aerosols can be seen moving NNE across Lower Mississippi River Valley (near the sources) across all of AR, S 2/3rds of MO, extreme E OK, Arklatex area of NE Texas, N LA, Valley between Yazoo and Mississippi Rivers in MS. This continues NE and moving NE across S IL, W TN, KY, S IN and S OH into WV. Minnesota: A very thin area of smoke likely from Canadian fires (though possible from MT/ID fires a few days ago), is trapped along the convergence zone (secondary polar trof/front) SW of the main upper low migrating E across Ontario covering central MN into far NW WI and portions of E SD. Gallina 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