Sunday, June 25, 2017

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z June 26, 2017

SMOKE:
Southwestern and Southern Plain US/Northern Mexico...
The Brian Head fire in Southwestern Utah continues to produce a
significant area of smoke that spreads from southern Utah/Colorado, across
parts of northeast Arizona and into western/central New Mexico. The smoke
has also moved east and was seen in Oklahoma and Texas. The heaviest
smoke is seen moving east across a large section of northern/central
New Mexico and southern Colorado.   Currently, the northern edge of
the wildfire is producing light smoke moving west and the southern
edge is producing moderately dense to dense smoke moving southeast and
then fanning out after moving south and moving directly east/west.
Moderately dense to dense smoke remains within the local vicinity
of the Frye fire over southeastern Arizona.  Overall, smoke is seen
across a large section of Arizona and western and central New Mexico.
Also, a large area of residual smoke is seen moving southwest across
southwestern Texas and into northern Mexico states.

Eastern Alaska/Yukon/Northwest Territories/Nunavut...
A large fire was observed east of Old Rampart Alaska and was producing a
large quantity of smoke traveling south east reaching as far as North
Dakota.

Southern California:
Two fires were seen emitting smoke that was blowing in a north east
direction. One fire is located just north of Los Angeles and the other
further north near the Sierra National Forest.

-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.