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