DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z June 16, 2017
SMOKE: Arizona/New Mexico/Oklahoma/Kansas/Texas... Light smoke from numerous wildfires in Arizona and New Mexico extends from central Arizona and across much of New Mexico into the Texas Panhandle, western Oklahoma and extreme southwest Kansas. There are smaller areas of moderate to 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, especially in Sonora and Chihuahua states, 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 and extended south and west to the Pacific coast and extending well off the coast into the southern Gulf of California and the open Pacific. A narrow plume of the smoke also extended east to the Big Bend area of Texas. Alaska and Yukon... Remnant light smoke from a fire in west central Yukon Territory was seen this morning extending from the far northwest portion of the Northwest Territories southwest across the northern Yukon Territory and into southeast Alaska. 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