DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z June 4, 2012
Southwestern United States: Remnant smoke, most likely from the Whitewater-Baldy fire in Mexico, is rotating around a surface high centered over Utah/western Colorado. The remnant smoke is moving westward across Arizona, northward through Nevada and extends as far north as southern Idaho. Additional smoke from the George fire in Tulare County, CA and the White Rock fire in Lincoln County, NV are adding additional smoke to this area. Whitewater-Baldy fire in New Mexico: The large fire complex in the Gila National Forest continued to produce smoke this evening. The densest smoke was located in the following counties by sunset: Catron, Sierra, Socorro, and Grant in NM and Greenlee and Graham in AZ. A majority of the dense smoke associated with the active burning moved south this evening. Canada: Several wildfires in Northwest Territories produced localized areas of moderately dense smoke this evening. Extensive cloud cover prevented smoke detection around known fires in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Blowing dust in the United States: Nevada: A few hours before sunset this evening, an area of light blowing dust/sand originated in Washoe, Humboldt, and Pershing Counties around 04/0015Z. This blowing dust moved to the northeast. Blowing dust in Mexico: Blowing dust originated this evening west of Carborca in Sonora this evening around 03/2315Z. The dust moved eastward and approached the Arizona/Sonora border by sunset. Myrga THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS 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.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/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