DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1550Z June 26, 2020
SMOKE:
Southern Plains and Southwestern US….
An area of light density smoke, from the ongoing fires over New Mexico
and Arizona, was extending from portions of western Kansas southwest
into portions of New Mexico.
DUST:
Gulf of Mexico and Gulf Coast States from Florida west to Southeast
Texas….The leading edge of the large area of Saharan Dust had pushed
off portions of the Southeast US coast. It then extended west through
portions of northern Florida, southern Georgia, southern Alabama,
southern Mississippi, southern Louisiana and southeast Texas and then
south through the western Gulf of Mexico. Another large area of Saharan
Dust was entering the eastern Caribbean and had overspread the islands
as far west as Puerto Rico.
Hanna
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