DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0245Z July 13, 2014
SMOKE: Canada/Northern U.S: A tremendous number of wildfires burning across the Northwest Territories are producing very dense smoke extending across central Northwest Territories. Some smoke is pushing south over eastern Alberta, and southwest Saskatchewan with some smoke moving farther north into upper sections of Northwest and Nunavut. Moderately dense smoke extends across most of Alberta, Saskatchewan, northern/central Montana, North Dakota, northern Minnesota and east to northeast into Ontario and St James and southern Hudson Bay. Lighter smoke extends into southern/central Manitoba and northern Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley. British Columbia/Alberta: Numerous wildfires across central British Columbia/Alberta are producing moderately dense to dense smoke moving east to northeast over the region before combining with smoke from the Northwest Territories wildfires and then moving south with the flow over that region. Some of these fires are emitting very heavy smoke. Northern California/Oregon/Washington/southern British Columbia: Wildfires burning in Northern California and Washington State are emitting smoke stretching into southern British Columbia and beginning to reach other areas of smoke from fires burning across the central province. Newfoundland/Atlantic: Residual smoke most likely from the Northwest Territories wildfires can be seen moving off the Newfoundland coast and farther northeast into the Atlantic. Dust: Southern and Central Plains/Mississippi Valley An area of dust mentioned earlier today can currently been seen extending over sections of eastern New Mexico, Texas Panhandle and possibly farther east in Texas, most of Oklahoma, into southern/central Kansas, into western Missouri and Arkansas. The light dust may extend farther east, but it is hard to confirm in current satellite imagery. J Kibler 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