DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0215Z July 24, 2014
SMOKE: Canadian: The tremendous area burning in the Northwest Territories around Great Slave and Great Bear Lakes continues to generate smoke that is covering a large portion of the US and Canada. This evening, the smoke covered most of Northwest Territories and Nunavut and then curled to the southeast across northeast Saskatchewan, northern Manitoba and northern Ontario. Most of this smoke was moderate to very dense. Lighter remnant smoke was also observed in a separate patch from the Mid Atlantic and New England states across the Canadian maritimes into the Labrador Sea. US: Light remnant smoke from fires burning in Siberia was seen entering the California coast just north of San Francisco and extending to the northeast across eastern Oregon and Washington and western Idaho where it also merged with smoke from fires burning in eastern and south central Oregon and southern Idaho. Large fires burning in eastern Nevada have generated moderately dense to dense smoke that extended to the northeast into northeast Utah. Lighter smoke from these fires was detected moving into northwest Wyoming. Mostly light remnant smoke was seen over much of the Plains states from southern Canada into Texas and the northern Gulf of Mexico where it curved to the northeast into southern Louisiana and the southeast states. There were patches of moderately dense smoke embedded within this larger area. The patches were over Nebraska/Kansas, the western Gulf of Mexico and southeast Louisiana. This is likely a mix of smoke from the Canadian fires and the fires in the western US. DUST: California/Oregon/Idaho/Nevada: A plume of light to moderate blowing dust was originating from the Goose Lake area along the California/Oregon border. This dust was moving to the northeast and reached into western Idaho by sunset. A separate source area was near Humboldt Lake in northwest Nevada. This dust was moving to the east just reaching into central Nevada. Colorado: A small area of light blowing dust was detected over southeast Colorado moving to the west northwest along the Arkansas river valley. Ruminski 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