Sunday, June 15, 2014

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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.