DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE
IMAGERY THROUGH 0330Z, June 04, 2018.
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SMOKE:
Southwest/Central/South Central US...
Moderately dense to thick smoke was seen spreading to the east and
east-northeast from wildfires located in eastern Apache County of
northeastern Arizona, and Catron County (Buzzard Fire) of west central
New Mexico. More moderately dense to thick smoke was also visible
moving to the northeast into southwestern New Mexico from fires just
south of the southwestern New Mexico-Mexico border. Somewhat thinner
density smoke was noted from other wildfires in southwestern Colorado
and eastern Arizona. Farther to the east, a large region of thin density
smoke attributed to the aforementioned wildfire activity was seen across a
good portion of the Central and South Central US from Nebraska and Kansas
southward over much of Texas. Significant cloud cover over Colorado,
central to eastern New Mexico, and southwestern Texas limited smoke
detection in satellite imagery in those regions.
Mexico...
Seasonal fires scattered across portions of Mexico continued with a
large region of thin to moderately dense smoke noted across southern and
western Mexico extending northward to the border regions of New Mexico
and western Texas. Locally thicker smoke could be seen with some of the
more significant fires in Mexico.
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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/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg
GIS: ftp://satpsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/FIRE/HMS/GIS/
KML: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/fire.kml (fire)
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/smoke.kml (smoke)
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