DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z May 6, 2017
North Central US/South Central Canada... Numerous seasonal fires were analyzed from the northern part of North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota up over southern Manitoba and southern Saskatchewan in south central Canada. These fire produced many smoke plumes of primarily thin density which fanned out and merged forming larger areas of smoke in this region. JS Earlier This Morning... SMOKE: Arizona and New Mexico... The Kerr fire in west central New Mexico and a fire in east central Arizona just east of Show Low are producing light to moderately dense smoke plumes that are moving to the east. Patchy areas of residual smoke from these fires were scattered across New Mexico and reaching into the western Texas Panhandle. Lake Winnipeg to Iowa... An area of light smoke was detected this morning over much of southeast Manitoba and southwest Ontario extending into northern Minnesota and eastern North Dakota. This is believed to be a mixture of residual smoke from agricultural burning in the region yesterday and possibly long range transport from Asia. A thin finger of light smoke extends south from this area of smoke across central Minnesota and across central Iowa. A separate patch of light smoke was seen over eastern South Dakota, far southwest Minnesota and extreme northwest Iowa. These areas of smoke areas likely from the burning in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, North Dakota and Minnesota yesterday. Montana... Two small patches of very light residual smoke were observed over far eastern Montana and moving to the east. Northern Mexico... Several fires burning in western and southwest Chihuahua and eastern Sonora states in northern Mexico have produced light to locally moderately dense smoke that is covering portions of northeast Sonora and adjacent Chihuahua. This area of smoke was drifting to the north. Gulf of Mexico... Smoke from the seasonal burning in southeast Mexico and Central America has mostly been cleared out of the Gulf. Any remaining smoke is likely confined to the southern Bay of Campeche and near the Yucatan. Ruminski 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