DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z June 16 2016
SMOKE: Arizona/New Mexico into central and northern Plains: Several wildfires burning from eastern Arizona into central New Mexico over the past few days have produced a broad area of smoke that has drifted into the central and northern Plains. Very light remnant smoke was seen over the Dakotas and the panhandle and eastern Nebraska. This smoke was mainly lifting to the north and northeast. A more significant area of moderately dense and dense smoke from the burning last evening and overnight was seen over northeast New Mexico, southeast Colorado, far western Kansas, extreme northwest Texas Panhandle and western Oklahoma Panhandle. Most of this smoke was drifting to the northeast, although one plume of smoke associated with the Dog Head fire in central New Mexico was moving to the east into east central New Mexico. Utah/Wyoming: A couple of patches of very light remnant smoke from a wildfire in southwest Utah were seen over northeast Utah and central and northeast Wyoming moving to the northeast. Southern California: The Sherpa fire in Santa Barbara county, west of Santa Barbara, exploded overnight and has produced a plume of light to moderately dense smoke that extends south and southeast of the fire over the Pacific and the eastern Channel Islands and drifting into the Los Angeles basin. 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