DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1730Z July 4, 2017
SMOKE: Northern Rockies/Plains/Southern Canada: Residual smoke most likely associated with the Sutherland Canyon fire burning in south-central Washington State is seen well to the east with light density smoke covering southeast Alberta, southern/central Saskatchewan, western Manitoba, northern Montana and into northwest North Dakota. Also, a wildfire burning in Phillips county Montana (north-central state) is producing moderately dense to dense smoke moving south across the state. Early in the day light smoke could be seen moving east. Baja/Southern California... Residual light smoke from fires burning across northern Baja can be seen moving across the far northwest sections of Baja and into southwest California. Northern Nevada/southwest Oregon/southern Idaho/northern Utah A large area of moderately dense to dense smoke attributed to the fires across west central Nevada was visible over parts of western/northern Nevada and going across the border into southern Oregon/Idaho and northern Utah. Arizona/Utah/Nevada: A area of light residual smoke can be over parts of southern Utah/Nevada and into northern Arizona. J Kibler 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