DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0245Z June 14, 2015
Oregon/California: A wildfire in southwest Oregon and another wildfire in northwest California that were seen in yesterday's satellite imagery continue to produce light to moderate smoke plumes this afternoon/evening. The wildfire, also known as Buckskin, in the southeastern corner of Curry county Oregon was producing a light to moderate density smoke plume and can be seen moving to the southwest and eventually offshore. The other wildfire, called Saddle, along the northern Humboldt/Trinity border in California was producing an area of light density smoke that was moving eastward. Nebraska/South Dakota: Two areas of light density remnant smoke that were likely from Canadian wildfires were observed over central Nebraska and the eastern portions of South Dakota. Both areas of light density smoke are slowly moving to the northeast. Mid-Atlantic Coast: An area of light density residual smoke was seen near the Mid-Atlantic Coast moving offshore to the southeast. Convection along the Virginia and North Carolina coastline obscured the full extent of the smoke. This area of smoke is a combination of smoke from Canadian wildfires and agricultural/prescribed burns in North Carolina. Southwest Canada/Montana/Idaho/Washington: A ribbon of light density remnant smoke from Canadian wildfires was seen stretching from extreme eastern Washington, through northern Idaho, northern Montana, southern Saskatchewan and into southern Manitoba. A broad area of clouds north of this area of smoke limited the ability to determine the full extent of this area of smoke. Northwest Canada/Southeast Canada: A large of area of light density remnant smoke was seen in Northwest Canada and Southeast Canada as well as light-moderate-heavy density smoke plumes associated with wildfires in the Northwest Territories. This large area of light density smoke spanned from northern Alberta, through the eastern portions of the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, across Hudson bay, Baffin Island, to the western coast of Greenland, then southwards into southwestern Quebec. Within this area of light density smoke, light-moderate-heavy density smoke plumes associated with wildfires in the Northwest Territories were seen southeast of Great Slave Lake. All of these smoke plumes were moving to the southwest and into northern Alberta. -Cronin 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