DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0700Z June 24, 2017
SMOKE: Southwestern and South Central US... The Brian Head fire in Southwestern Utah continued to produce significant smoke throughout the day and into this evening with dense smoke spreading to the east and southeast across southern Utah into northeastern Arizona. Smoke of varying density mainly attributed to this fire covered a very large area stretching from southern Utah and the eastern portion of Arizona eastward to the Central and Southern Plains though additional wildfires in north central and southeastern Arizona were also contributing some to the large mass of smoke. Heavy dense smoke remains within the local vicinity of the Frye fire over southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. Eastern Alaska/Yukon/Northwest Territories/Nunavut... A large area of thin density remnant smoke covers much of eastern Alaska, the Central Yukon, and over the northern half of the Northwest Territories with more dense smoke centered closer to the fires over the Yukon and western part of the Northwest Territories. Area from North Central Canada to Eastern Montana and North Dakota...A large patch of thin density smoke likely leftover from the fires in the Yukon and Northwest Territories with some contribution also from a few wildfires in northern Alberta was visible spreading to the south and southeast from far north central Canada southward over portions of Alberta and Saskatchewan and southeastward across eastern Montana and North Dakota. -Westbrook/JS 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