DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0500Z June 28, 2017
SMOKE: Area from the Southwestern US to the western Southern Plains... A significant area of smoke attributed to the numerous wildfires over the Western and Southwestern US could be seen this evening covering large portions of Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and western Texas. Much of the smoke was originating from the two largest wildfires: the Brian Head in southern Utah and the Goodwin in central Arizona. Significant areas of moderate to dense smoke were seen extending from these fires mostly to the east and reaching the Colorado and New Mexico borders respectively. An area of moderately dense remnant smoke was also over west Texas from the Panhandle to the Big Bend. Southwest Wyoming.... An area of light remnant smoke from fires early this morning over northern Utah was now seen over southwest Wyoming. Southwest Ontario through the Great Lakes region to the central Appalachians... Remnant mainly thin density smoke from wildfires over northwestern Canada was seen this evening extending from southwest and south central Ontario across much of the Great Lakes including Wisconsin and Michigan with a narrowing arm of this smoke then extending into the central Appalachians of western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, western Virginia and North Carolina. Alaska and Northwestern Canada... Clouds prohibiting determining the full extent of the smoke in this region but thin density smoke was seen along an east/west axis from central Alaska, across central Yukon Territory into northwest Northwest Territory. Canadian Prairies.... An arc of thin remnant smoke was seen extending from southwest Alberta eastward into southwest Saskatchewan and then curling northward to west central Saskatchewan. DUST... Southern California/Arizona... Several areas of blowing dust were noted across this area. One plume of light to moderate dust was seen originating from west of the Salton Sea near Imperial and moving to the east while another was detected north of the Salton Sea and moving south. One other Plume of light dust was seen coming from the Willcox Playa in southern Arizona and moving to the east southeast. 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