DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z June 12, 2020
SMOKE:
Rockies into the Central Plains…
Wildfire activity across Arizona and New Mexico was responsible for
varying density smoke across western New Mexico, southeastern Arizona,
and in southern Utah. The wildfire emitting the densest smoke is in far
northern Arizona, which is being drawn northward into Utah. In addition
to the attached smoke plumes, a large area of remnant smoke was observed
from Wyoming to New Mexico to Missouri to southern Texas. The regions
of most dense remnant smoke are over the Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming
triple point and across northeastern New Mexico and the Oklahoma and Texas
Panhandles. Much of the remnant smoke east of the fire activity was movign
east while the remnant smoke to the north was moving northeast. As for
the emanating smoke, much of that is moving north from the parent fires.
Southern California/Baja Peninsula…
Wildfire activity continues across northern Baja California. However,
the emitted smoke is much less dense than in previous days, with little
smoke observed in the 14Z-17Z time frame. There may still be some smoke
present offshore where cloud cover is present. The little smoke that
was observed was moving west offshore.
Southern Plains…
A handful of fires across Oklahoma, east Texas, and west Louisiana were
observed producing mainly light smoke that was moving off toward the
west-northwest, west, or west-southwest.
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