DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1530Z June 15, 2014
SMOKE: New Mexico: A fire burning on the border of McKinley and San Juan counties is producing a plume smoke moving ENE across sections of southern San Juan County in Northwest New Mexico. Southern California: A fire burning in North Central Kern county is producing a light plume of smoke moving southeast toward San Bernardino county. Manitoba/Nunavut/Hudson Bay: An area of light to moderately dense residual smoke can be seen moving east across N Manitoba, southern sections of Nunavut and into the Hudson Bay. The area of smoke is not seen once reaching the sections of middle Hudson Bay due to cloud cover. Sections of northern Alberta and Saskatchewan and southern Northwest Territories, very light residual smoke is possibly seen, but not yet confirmed. The source of this smoke across northern Canada is from wildfires burning NW of Lake Athabasca and S and SW of Great Slave Lake. BLOWING DUST: Southwestern U.S. into southern Plains: An area of dust can be seen sweeping across parts of central and southern section of E New Mexico, across the panhandle of Texas and Oklahoma. The dust is currently moving into sections of W Texas and SW and C Oklahoma. The heaviest section of this dust extends across SW Oklahoma. J Kibler 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