DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0330Z June 17 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 with an area of moderate to very dense smoke over portions of southwest Nebraska, western Kansas and eastern Colorado. Southern California: The fire west of Santa Barbara continues to produced a plume of to moderate to very dense smoke that extends south and southeast of the fire over the Pacific and along coastal southern California to offshore the northern Baja. Western Gulf of Mexico: An area of thin remnant smoke extended from the western Gulf of Mexico towards south Texas. The source region for this is fire activity over Mexico and the oil platforms near the Yucatan. Southeast: An area of haze and thin remnant smoke was seen from off the Southeast coast towards the Southern Plains. Hanna 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