DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1545Z June 02, 2014
Southern Plains: Remnant light-density smoke could be seen in visible satellite imagery this morning across western/central Oklahoma and north-central Texas. A separate remnant area of smoke was also seen over southeastern New Mexico and west Texas. Several agricultural fires analyzed yesterday across Texas, in addition to the persistent Black River Tank wildfire in Arizona are likely sources of this smoke. Northern Canada: A rather expansive area of smoke is located over northeast Alberta, northern Saskatchewan, southeastern Northwest Territories, southern Nunavut and northern Manitoba provinces. This residual smoke from Alaskan wildfires continues to drift east across northern Canada. Eastern Alaska/Yukon: A small area of remnant smoke from a wildfire analyzed yesterday in central Alaska was seen tracking east along the Alaska/Yukon border. Upper Midwest: A thin-density area of unknown aerosols was observed across South Dakota, northern Nebraska. It is unknown what the composition of this aerosol is at this time from satellite imagery. Warren 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.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/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