DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z June 15, 2017

SMOKE:

Arizona/New Mexico/Oklahoma/Kansas/Texas...
Numerous wildfires in Arizona and New Mexico have generated an area of
light remnant smoke that stretches from portions of eastern Arizona and
across much of New Mexico into west Texas, the Oklahoma Panhandle and
western Kansas. These smoke areas are mainly moving to the east. There
are smaller areas of moderately dense smoke in the vicinity of the fires,
especially in the valleys and drainage areas near the fires.

Mexico...
Numerous fires burning over northwestern Mexico continue to contribute
to the smoke from previous days in the region. A broad area of light to
moderately dense smoke covered much of northwest Mexico from near the
Big Bend area southward to the Pacific coast and extending well off the
coast into the southern Gulf of California and the open Pacific.

Minnesota...
An area of thin remnant smoke was seen stretching from extreme east
central North Dakota northeastward into northwest Minnesota and into
far southwest Ontario.

Alaska and Yukon...
A fire burning in west central Yukon Territory has produced a plume of
light to moderately dense smoke that extends westward from the fire into
east central Alaska and then curls back to the east across central Yukon.

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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

Unless otherwise indicated:

Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.

Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.

A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.

Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.