DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z June 28, 2016
SMOKE: California: A broad area of thin density smoke mainly from the Erskin Fire in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains of south central California was visible streaming from off the southern California coast inland over southern and central California, much of Nevada and Utah, and over southern Idaho and southwestern Wyoming. Central US: An area of leftover detached light density smoke associated mostly with the Crow Peak Fire in the Black Hills of western South Dakota was analyzed from southern South Dakota and northern and eastern Nebraska, to Iowa and central Illinois. Some of the smoke later in the day around sunset was analyzed as it was being advected into the state of Wyoming. Alaska and Northwestern Canada: A few patches of aerosol which is likely composed of at least some leftover detached thin density smoke were visible over portions of the Yukon, Northwest Territories and is traveling into the province of Saskatchewan . This smoke is likely due to a combination of a few fires in the Yukon as well as fire activity in west central Alaska. Colorado and Southeast Nebraska Light, moderate and thick density smoke is seen emanating from fires in the vicinity of the northeast Colorado/southeast Wyoming/ northwest Nebraska border traveling into the state of Colorado. Louisiana: Smoke from fires along the gulf coast was being transported offshore in a southerly direction. DUST: Caribbean: A region of possible Saharan dust could still be seen over the Caribbean Sea spreading to the west. FS 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