DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z June 30, 2017
SMOKE: Southwestern US/South Central US/Northern and Northwestern Mexico... Numerous wildfires burning in the Southwestern US were responsible for a very large mass of thin density smoke which covered much of the Southwestern and South Central US from Utah and Arizona eastward to Missouri and Arkansas. Within this area, swaths of moderately dense smoke extended from the Brian Fire in southwestern Utah eastward to western Kansas and western Oklahoma with thicker smoke located near and just east of the fire. Farther to the south, the wildfire in Socorro County of west central New Mexico emitted a plume of moderately dense smoke which extended eastward into western Texas with dense smoke located near and east of the fire. Additional wildfires in Arizona also were producing moderately dense to thick smoke moving to the east and northeast. Area from Northwestern Canada to the Northwestern and West Central US... A very large area of thin density smoke attributed to a number of fires in Northwestern Canada and eastern Alaska has been transported southeastward across a portion of western and southwestern Canada and southward into the US over western Montana, eastern Washington and eastern Oregon, much of Idaho, northern Nevada, northern Utah, and southwestern Wyoming. From there the smoke spread southeastward and eastward over northern Colorado where it eventually merged with the smoke from the Southwestern US fires. Southern Oregon/Northwestern Nevada... A stripe of thin density smoke believed to be from nearby fires in Oregon and northern California was visible extending from southwestern Oregon to northwestern Nevada. Eastern Alaska/Northwestern Canada... A rather large patch of thin density smoke covered northeastern Alaska and the northern part of the Yukon in northwestern Canada with embedded smaller plumes of moderately dense to thick smoke located near the fires close to the Alaska-Yukon border. DUST: Caribbean/Yucatan/Southern and Central Gulf of Mexico... An area of Saharan dust was visible across a portion of the Caribbean, the Yucatan Peninsula, and over the southern and central Gulf of Mexico. JS 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