DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z June 24, 2020
SMOKE:
South Central and Southwestern United States/Northern Mexico…
Wildfire activity across southeastern Arizona and southwestern New
Mexico were producing varying densities of smoke this morning and early
afternoon. The most dense smoke was emanating from the Bighorn Fire in
south-central Arizona and moving off toward the east-northeast. Other
fires noted producing light to moderate density smoke include the Tadpole,
Good, and Vics Peak in New Mexico and the Bringham and Bush fires, along
with two newer fires, in Arizona. Smoke from most of this fire activity
was moving off generally between east and northeast.
Southern Plains…
A couple fires across Oklahoma and Kansas were observed producing
light smoke plumes early this afternoon. Surface high pressure centered
over central Oklahoma was moving smoke over northeastern Oklahoma and
southeastern Kansas east-southeastward while smoke over western Oklahoma
was moving west to northwest.
Western Mexico…
Seasonal fires across western Mexico were producing mainly light smoke
that was moving west toward the shore.
DUST:
Caribbean Sea/Yucatan Peninsula/Southeastern CONUS…
An expansive region of Saharan Dust was extending from the central
Caribbean northwest across the the Yucatan, Gulf of Mexico, and the
southern Mississippi Valley. This area of dues was moving off toward the
west, then north on the eastern edge of a cyclone over southeastern Texas.
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