DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z June 24, 2015
SMOKE Alaska/Yukon/British Columbia: A prolific amount of wildfires continue to be observed across much of Alaska, with a lower number of wildfires seen in western Yukon and northwestern British Columbia. These wildfires continue to produce a broad area of smoke over Alaska, central/southern Yukon and northern British Columbia. An area of dense smoke was seen moving eastward from central Alaska, where the majority of wildfires are located, into the northern-central portions of Yukon. Central Canada and North Central US: A broad area of light density remnant smoke from Canadian wildfires was seen moving to the southeast in northern Alberta, Saskatchewan, southern Manitoba, southwest Ontario through the Dakotas and into the Central Plains and Midwest where it intersected a stream of moderate density smoke that originated from wildfires in California. Multiple wildfires were observed in northern Alberta, southern Northwest Territories and northern Saskatchewan. Heavy density smoke plumes were associated with two of these wildfires southeast of Great Slave Lake and were moving to the southeast. US Southwest/Intermountain West: A thin band of light to moderate density remnant smoke was seen spanning from central Nevada to eastern Colorado and originated yesterday from a wildfire called the Washington fire located south of Lake Tahoe in California. This wildfire continues to emit heavy smoke to the east with smoke reaching as far east as Pershing county Nevada. A fire in northern Baja California has produced a moderate to heavy density smoke plume that extends into southeastern California. Multiple wildfires in California, Arizona, New Mexico have resulted in light residual smoke from the Southwest to the central Plains and western Tennessee Valley as well as the Intermountain West. DUST Gulf of Mexico/Central Plains/Southern and Eastern US: A broad area of Saharan dust remains over the Gulf Coast states and extends northward into the south-central Plains and eastward off the eastern US coastline. -Cronin 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