DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0215Z June 16, 2014
SMOKE: New Mexico: A fire burning on the border of McKinley and San Juan counties in northwest New Mexico has blown up this afternoon/evening and is producing a plume of moderately dense to locally dense smoke moving ENE across northern portions of the state and extending into far southern Colorado. The full extent of the smoke is not well known as extensive cloud cover has overspread the region. Southern California: A fire burning in North Central Kern county is producing a plume of light to moderately dense smoke moving east along the San Bernardino and Inyo county border reaching the Nevada border by sunset. Northern Canada: An broad area of mostly light residual smoke can be seen moving east from northern Alberta across southeast Northwest Territories, southeast Nunavut and northern Manitoba across central Hudson Bay and into northern Quebec. The smoke is from wildfires burning over the past several days between Lake Athabasca and Great Slave Lake. BLOWING DUST: Colorado: An area of light to moderately dense blowing dust was seen over east central Colorado just north of the Arkansas River near Lamar. The dust was moving to the northwest. Southern California: Several plumes of dust were detected over southern California, mostly originating in western Kern county, west of Bakesfield. One of the plumes in particular along the northwest portion of the county was moderately dense to dense. The dust was moving to the east and covered much of Kern county and spilled over into Tulare by sunset. A smaller area of light dust was seen over far southern California originating from the desert areas around the Salton sea and moving to the east. Northern Mexico to far west Texas: A plume of light dust was seen stretching across northern Chihuahua along the New Mexico border and moving to the east into west Texas around El Paso. Gulf of Mexico into the southern Plains: A very broad area of light Saharan dust was seen covering much of the Gulf of Mexico and has also been drawn northward across Texas into Oklahoma, southern Kansas, Arkansas and Missouri. The dust over the southern Plains was also mixing with anthropogenic haze and some smoke from recent agricultural fires in the lower Mississippi 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