DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z June 09, 2014

Western US:
An area of thin smoke with embedded patches of moderately dense smoke was
present over west central Idaho, central and southern Oregon, northwest
and eastern Nevada, and northern California. The smoke also extended west
and southwest along the California coast. The majority of this smoke is
from the Two Bulls fire in central Oregon.

Florida:
An area of thin to moderately dense smoke spread from southern Florida
northeastward off the Florida coast. This smoke is coming from a cluster
of fires south of Lake Okeechobee called the Alligator Fire.

Northwest Territories:
Thin smoke was seen coming from a fire just to the southwest of Great
Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories.

North Central US/South Central Canada:
An unknown aerosol covers much of the north central US and south
central part of Canada this morning, trailing behind an upper low that
is over the central Great Plains. This aerosol stretches from southern
Alberta/southern Saskatchewan south and southeastward to Wyoming, the
Dakotas, and northern Minnesota.

Texas/New Mexico:
Blowing dust was visible over southeast New Mexico and west central to
southwest Texas as a frontal boundary pushed southward across the region
producing strong winds.

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.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

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.