DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z June 14 2016
SMOKE: Southwest: Smoke plumes are traveling in a northeasterly direction toward the four corners region and west Texas The source region for this smoke is fire activity over central and southwest Arizona, west central New Mexico and northern Sonora Mexico. The smoke is light to moderately dense. Mid/Lower Mississippi Valley to the Southeast Coast: A mix of smoke and haze pollution is present in the Mid to lower Mississippi Valley extending across the Tennessee Valley to Georgia and South Carolina where it moves off the coast into the Atlantic. Any smoke in this mix is mostly attributed to numerous agricultural fires that are occurring in southeast Missouri, eastern Arkansas and western Mississippi. DUST Northern Chihuahua: There was an area of light blowing dust seen in northern Chihuahua just south of the New Mexico border that was moving to the east toward El Paso this evening. Sandusky/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