DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0400Z June 29, 2017
SMOKE: Southwest US into the Central and Southern Plains.... The numerous large wildfires burning over the Southwest – mainly in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah – and Baja California Norte has generated a huge pall of smoke that covers much of the Southwest, including AZ, NM, UT and extending into the Plains over Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Missouri. There were significant areas of moderately dense to dense smoke within this large area. The thickest smoke as with the Brian Head fire in southern Utah, the Goodwin fire in central Arizona, the Frye fire in southeast Arizona and the Tiffany fire in southern New Mexico. Northwest... A fire on the eastern slopes of the Washington Cascades was generating a broad area of smoke, some moderate to dense, that was spreading to the east and southeast and reaching into northern Idaho. Alberta/British Columbia.... An area of remnant smoke from the fires in Yukon Territories has settled into northern Alberta and adjoining British Columbia. Minnesota/North Dakota.... An arc of light density smoke has curled around the western periphery of a low pressure area over Minnesota and dropped south from Manitoba into eastern North Dakota before curling east into southern Minnesota. DUST: A moderately dense plume of blowing dust was seen moving south off of Summer Lake in south central Oregon. A plume of blowing dust was also seen originating from just southwest of the Salton Sea and moving east, nearly reaching the Arizona border by sunset. 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