DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1645Z June 27, 2014
SMOKE: Canada: Numerous wildfires throughout the Northwest Territories centered around Great Slave Lake and a few other fires in northwestern Canada are producing a large amount of moderate to dense smoke over northwest Canada. A plume of thin smoke to moderately dense smoke can be seen stretching eastward from the source region across Hudson Bay and northern Quebec where it joins with another area of older remnant smoke that also originated from the Northwest Territories with thin smoke extending south to the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the northern tip of Maine and eastward across the North Atlantic. Great Lakes Region: A hazy looking broken area of aerosol is seen from Illinois/Indiana northward to southern Ontario. Small areas of this aerosol were analyzed as remnant smoke from fires along the Mississippi River in Arkansas/southeast Missouri based on aerosol models but the rest of the aerosol is unknown. Some of the more northern aerosol appears as though it could be remnant smoke from the northwest Canada wildfires that has become disconnected but this answer doesn't easily explain the aerosol moving northwest across Lake Superior; thus much of the aerosol is of unknown composition and origin. South Central to Central US: An area of thin aerosol that appears to be composed mostly of elevated dust particles based on aerosol models is seen from central Texas northward across Oklahoma/Kansas where solid cloud cover begins to obscure the view. There may also be some elevated dust seen right after daybreak over northeast Colorado. Over the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, it is also possible that thin remnant smoke from wildfires in Arizona had mixed in with the dust. 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