DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1730Z June 18, 2009
Southern Plains to Lower Mississippi Valley: Thin to moderately dense remnant smoke from fires in the southern Plains over the past few days was seen across parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. The area of smoke, which is trapped beneath an upper level ridge, was slowly progressing eastward. Southern Canada/Northern Plains/Great Lakes Region: Two large areas of thin remnant smoke with embedded moderately dense smoke leftover from fires in past few days continued to swirl around southern Canada, progressing slowly to the east. These areas of smoke were split by a band of thick clouds stretching northward from the US across western Ontario. One area of smoke stretched from North Dakota/Minnesota to southern Alberta and central Saskatchewan with moderately dense smoke on the southern edge of the upper low over the region. The other area was over Ontario/western Quebec and the northern Great Lakes with moderately dense smoke northeast of Lake Superior and moderately dense to very dense smoke over north central Ontario. East Canada: Thin remnant smoke now well off the coast of New England was seen stretching across Nova Scotia and southeast Newfoundland to the Labrador Sea. West Canada: Thin remnant smoke was seen this morning positioned across parts of the Northwest Territories, Yukon Territory, British Columbia, and Alberta moving slowly east and southeast. Alaska: Thin remnant smoke was observed across northern Alaska being wrapped into an upper low over the northwest corner of the state. Sheffler More information on additional areas of smoke associated with these fires and others can be found at the locations listed below. THE FORMAT OF THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS BEING MODIFIED. IT WILL NO LONGER DESCRIBE THE VARIOUS PLUMES THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES. THESE PLUMES ARE DEPICTED IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE: JPEG: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/hms.html GIS: http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm KML: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html THIS TEXT PRODUCT WILL CONTINUE TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF SMOKE WHICH HAVE BECOME DETACHED FROM AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE, TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. IT WILL ALSO STILL INCLUDE DESCRIPTIONS OF BLOWING DUST. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THESE CHANGES OR THE SMOKE TEXT PRODUCT IN GENERAL SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov