DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z June 20 2016
SMOKE: Southwest US/Central and Southern 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, Indiana and the western half of Ohio. Agricultural and prescribed burns in the Middle Mississippi River Valley produced light density smoke which has traveled northeast and mixed in with this area of remnant smoke. Currently, the wildfires burning over Arizona, New Mexico and southern California continue to produce moderately dense to dense smoke that is primarily moving west. The Cedar wildfire in east-central Arizona is producing an impressive plume of moderate to heavy density smoke. Northwest Territories/Alberta: A ribbon of light to moderate density remnant smoke was seen moving southeast and spanned from northwest Alberta northeast into the Northwest Territories over Great Slave Lake and into western Nunavut. This area of smoke originated from wildfire activity over central Alaska and possibly across Siberia. Yukon: Two wildfires were seen southeast of Grey Hunter Peak producing light to heavy density smoke plumes traveling towards the east. DUST: Texas/Gulf of Mexico: A stream of light density Saharan dust was seen spanning from Cuba west-northwest across the Gulf of Mexico into southeast Texas before mixing with smoke originating from wildfires in the US Southwest. -Cronin 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