DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1815Z June 17 2016
SMOKE: Arizona/New Mexico/Plains/Central and Northern Mississippi Valley/Ontario: Several wildfires burning from eastern Arizona into central New Mexico over the past few days have produced a broad area of residual smoke that has drifted into the Plains and farther east/north. An area of moderately dense smoke stretches from Central Oklahoma (narrow band) north into central and northwest Kansas, northeast Colorado, western/central Nebraska and southern South Dakota. Very light remnant smoke is seen from eastern New Mexico/ most of Texas and as far north as southern North Dakota and as far east as western Wisconsin, across most of Illinois/Missouri. Smoke is also seen wrapping around Low pressure in central Ontario in Canada. Currently, light to moderately dense smoke is seen coming from the wildfires in Arizona and New Mexico. Southern California: The wildfire west of Santa Barbara continues to produce a plume of light to moderate smoke that extends west across southern California and just across the border into southwest Nevada. Smoke is also southeast of the fire over the Pacific and along coastal southern California to offshore along northern/central Baja. J Kibler 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