DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1745Z June 19 2016
SMOKE: Southwest US/Plains/Middle and Upper Mississippi Valley/Great Lakes: Several wildfires burning from eastern Arizona into central New Mexico have produced a broad area of light residual smoke that has drifted into the Southern/Central Plains, Middle and Upper Mississippi Valley and into the Great Lakes region. Light smoke is spreading east/north from eastern Texas north through central/eastern Oklahoma, Kansas, eastern Nebraska and into most of Missouri and Illinois, Iowa, southern/central Minnesota, most of Wisconsin/Michigan and northwest Indiana. Currently, the wildfires burning over Arizona and New Mexico continue to produce moderately dense to dense smoke. Northwest Territories: An area of light to moderately dense remnant smoke from wildfire activity over central Alaska and possibly across Siberia is seen over portions of the Northwest Territories (as far east as Great Slave Lake) and northern British Columbia. 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