DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0600Z June 27, 2017
SMOKE: Southwestern US/Northern Mexico... A large mass of thin density smoke covered a large patch of the Southwestern US including much of Arizona, the southern half of Utah, southwestern Colorado, much of New Mexico and far western Texas. This smoke is due to several wildfires burning over Utah (including the Brian Head Fire in southwestern Utah) and Arizona with some possible contribution from fire activity over western and northwestern Mexico. More localized thicker smoke was located closer to the actual fires. Smoke from the Brian Head fire and the Goodwin fire in central Arizona was especially thick and fanned out to the east and north. Farther to the south, the aforementioned fire activity over western and northwestern Mexico was responsible for an area of thin to moderately dense smoke covering much of northern and northwestern Mexico and extending into the Pacific and the central and southern Gulf of California. North Central to South Central Canada into Minnesota... A swath of mostly thin smoke was seen extending from the Canadian arctic in northwest Nunavut southeastward to eastern Saskatchewan and Manitoba into western Ontario and northern Minnesota and a portion of eastern North Dakota. This smoke was attributed to ongoing wildfires over the Yukon and Northwest Territories and northern Alberta in northwestern Canada. Nebraska/Kansas... Remnant light smoke, possibly from the wildfires in the Western US, was seen over the central Plains from east central Kansas back to the northwest into northeast Colorado. Northern New England... A narrow ribbon of light density smoke, likely from the fires in northwest Canada, was seen along the Canada/US border from near the Vermont/New York border across northern Maine into New Brunswick. Northwestern Canada/Northeastern Alaska... Smoke was swirling around much of the Yukon Territory this evening and moving into northeast Alaska due to ongoing wildfires burning mainly in northern Yukon. Areas of moderate to dense smoke were seen in the vicinity of the fires and moving to the south. DUST: Southwest US... An area of light to moderate blowing dust was seen moving east off the Carson Sink into central Nevada. There was also a general area of light dust from numerous sources in the desert areas of southern California from Death Valley south through the Mohave. This area of light dust was mostly moving to the east and was also mixing with areas of light smoke. 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