Monday, June 19, 2017

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0345Z June 20, 2017


SMOKE:

Mississippi Valley:
Fires in the upper Mississippi Valley near the Kentucky, Illinois, and
Missouri borders were seen emitting smoke plumes traveling south east
into Tennessee.

Southwest US:
Numerous wildfires continue to burn, primarily in New Mexico and
Arizona. There are several patches of light smoke from these fires that
are now rotating roughly clockwise around the Southwest that covers
portions of southern California, southern Nevada, southwest Utah, New
Mexico and Arizona. Areas of moderately dense smoke are mainly confined
to the vicinity of the fires and mostly in the valleys and drainages
associated with them

Yukon Territory...
An area of light smoke was seen over southwest into central Yukon
Territory and spilling across the border into eastern Alaska. Cloud
cover mixed in with the smoke is inhibiting accurate assessment of the
full extent of the smoke.

Mexico...
Numerous fires were continuing to burn over northwestern Mexico,
especially in Sonora and Chihuahua states and to produce smoke. The
light to moderately dense smoke from these fires generally extended to
the southwest into the Pacific but some of the light density smoke was
filtering up the Gulf of California into extreme southwest Arizona.

-Westbrook


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.