Sunday, June 15, 2014

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

 


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.