DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z June 13, 2020
SMOKE:
Rockies/Southern and 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 dense smoke was in far
northern Arizona, which was being drawn northward into Utah. Another
wildfire in northeastern New Mexico was producing a moderate to heavy
density plume across the Texas Panhandle and western Oklahoma. 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 was over the Utah, Colorado,
and Wyoming triple point area. Much of the remnant smoke east of the
fire activity was moving east while the remnant smoke to the north was
moving northeast. As for the emanating smoke, much of that was moving
north from the parent fires.
California/Baja Peninsula...
Wildfire activity continues across northern Baja California and far
southern California. Light to moderate density plumes were found right
along the U.S./Mexico border.
Saskatchewan/Manitoba/North Dakota...
Several light density plumes from seasonal fires moving to the west and
west-northwest were detected from southeastern Saskatchewan to eastern
North Dakota.
Alaska...
Two wildfires in the central part of the state were producing light
density plumes that were moving off to the east-northeast.
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