DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z June 10, 2020
SMOKE:
New Mexico/Texas/Oklahoma...
A large wildfire over northeastern New Mexico is producing a widespread
light density plume that extends eastward over the Texas Panhandle and
southwest and south-central Oklahoma. Moderate and heavy plumes are
found over northeast New Mexico into the Texas Panhandle within the
larger light density plume.
Arizona/New Mexico...
Several wildfires over southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico
are spreading light to moderate density plumes to the south and
southeast.
California/Baja...
Light to moderate density plumes from wildfires are found along the
coastal area between Los Angeles and San Diego and along coastal
sections of northern Baja.
Alaska...
A cluster of wildfires continues over the far southwestern part of the
state in the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge and is producing a
narrow light to moderate density plume moving to the southeast for a
few hundred miles. Another cluster of wildfires between Stevens
Village and Rampart in the center of the state also continues to burn
producing a large light density plume that extends to the east-northeast.
A moderate density plume is located close to the fire cluster and is
also moving east-northeast.
Mexico...
A number of light density plumes from seasonal fires are located over
the west-central part of the country near the Pacific Coast, and
also over the southeastern part not far inland from the coast of
the Bay of Campeche.
DUST:
Southern Plains/Mississippi Valley...
Areas of blowing dust moving to the east are detected over eastern
Oklahoma and Kansas, northeastern Texas, northwestern Arkansas, and
western Missouri.
Konon
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