DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1500Z June 16, 2014
SMOKE: New Mexico/Colorado: The unnamed large fire complex along the McKinley/San Juan county line in New Mexico continues to produce thin smoke that is moving NE into CO, but this is detached from the larger/higher density smoke from last night's output that can be seen covering a large portion of Central CO, mainly covering much of the San Luis Valley, northern Sangre de Cristo Mtns before covering the eastern 1/3rd of the state creeping into NE and far NW KS. The highest density pocket which is of moderate density can be seen across the NE portion of CO (Washington, Logan, Phillips, and Sedgwick counties). Northern Canada: Residual smoke from wildfires burning between Lake Athabasca and Great Slave Lake can be seen covering a large portion of the NW Territories from the far Northern arm of Great Slave Lake, north of the Eastern arm before entering continental Nunavut and western Hudson Bay. Here it begins to meld with even older residual smoke that appears a bit lower in altitude that covers much of S Nunavut and N Manitoba with an arm extending across central Hudson Bay into North central Quebec. More recent output from the same fires can be seen in the lower levels of the atmosphere near and between the source fires SE of Great Slave lake; this smoke is of moderate density and is relatively stationary or being stretched SW and NE on each end. Gallina 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