DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z June 18, 2020
SMOKE:
Earlier today:
Central and Southwestern U.S., South Central Canada eastward to
Southeastern Canada, the Northeastern U.S., and the Southeastern U.S...
Similar to yesterday, a huge area of leftover thin density smoke
attributed mainly to ongoing wildfire activity in the Southwestern
U.S. was seen covering much of the country from the Southwest and
Central U.S. eastward to off the Northeast coast and off the Southeast
coast. Additional thin density smoke also was present over the northern
and central Gulf of Mexico and could also be seen over portions of the
region from South Central Canada to Southeastern Canada though cloud
cover there did interfere with detection in satellite imagery. Embedded
within this large mass of thin density smoke was an area of moderate to
thick smoke which affected the region from southern Utah and Arizona
northeastward over Colorado and the eastern third of Wyoming to the
western Dakotas and western Nebraska. New swaths of moderately dense to
thick smoke were visible this morning emanating from the Mangum, Bush,
and Bighorn fires in Arizona.
JS
This evening:
Arizona/New Mexico...
The latest GOES Satellite imagery observed large complex fire activity
with one of the fire complex in Northern Arizona by the Utah border and
the other large complex fires to the East of Phoenix. New fire complex
activity was observed in Southwestern New Mexico as well. The smoke from
the large complex fire activity is progressing Northeastward this evening.
Northern, Central, and Southern Plains/The Rockies/South Central and
Southeastern Canada/Southeastern US...
A large region of light density smoke was observed in these regions as
well as a region of moderate/thick density smoke were observed over the
Northern/Central Plains, the Central/Northern Rockies, and South Central
Canada in satellite imagery this evening.
California...
Fire activity was observed to the west of Lockwood California. Moderate
to thick density smoke was observed from the fire complex activity.
Alaska...
Fire activity continues to be observed North of Taylor Mountain Alaska
however cloud cover in the region from a weather system made smoke
analysis difficult this evening.
Southwestern/Western Mexico...
Seasonal fire activity continues to be observed mostly along coastal
portions of Southwestern/Western Mexico. Moderate to thick density
smoke was observed from several fires and light density smoke was also
observed from the fire activity progressing out over the Eastern Pacific
this evening.
Sambucci
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