DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z June 5, 2017
SMOKE: Southwestern US... A number of fires scattered across central and northern Arizona as well as a couple in western New Mexico were responsible for a sizable patch of thin density smoke which covered the northern half of Arizona, southeastern Utah, far southwestern Colorado, and northwestern New Mexico. Embedded swaths of moderately dense to locally thick smoke were visible over northern and central Arizona, and southern Utah. South Central Canada/North Central US... A large area of leftover thin density smoke attributed to some of the recent seasonal agricultural fires burning over southern Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba with some possible contribution from other fire activity over northern Alberta was seen over southern Manitoba and southwestern Ontario extending across the border over portions of the upper peninsula of Michigan, northern Wisconsin, much of Minnesota and eastern North Dakota. Mexico/Southern Texas/Western Gulf of Mexico... A significant amount of fire activity continues to be detected over western Mexico resulting in an expansive area of moderately dense to thick smoke covering a good portion of Mexico with thinner density smoke spreading across southern Texas and over the western Gulf of Mexico. DUST: Nevada... A streak of moderately dense blowing dust originated from the Carson Sink in west central Nevada and quickly moved to the east reaching central and east central Nevada just prior to sunset. 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