DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1430Z June 12, 2019
SMOKE: Central Canada/Northern Plains... Raging wildfires in northern Alberta have produced an expansive area of varying density smoke that extends from the central Northwest Territory and southwestern Nunavut south into northeastern Kansas and western Missouri. The most dense smoke is over south-central Northwest Territory, northern Alberta, and Saskatchewan, with a stripe of moderate to heavy smoke extending south into western North Dakota. Much of the smoke of moving off toward the east and east-southeast, with a few elements being drawn south-southeastward across Saskatchewan. Arizona... The Coldwater and Woodbury fires continue to burn in central Arizona this morning. Light remnant smoke covered muchof central Arizona and was observed moving both toward the east-southeast and the north-northeast, while the more dense and recently emitted smoke was moving towards the southwest. Mexico... Fire activity throughout Mexico continues to produce smoke this morning across the Pacific and Bay of Campeche coasts. Remnant smoke was observed covering a fairly large area mainly near the Pacific coast extending out a couple hundred miles offshore and across eastern Mexico extending eastward across the Gulf of Mexico and the western Bay of Campeche. Hosley 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) ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO: SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov