DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z September 5 2005
Montana/Idaho: Numerous large fires are burning across central and southeast Idaho. Smoke detection is being hindered however by extensive cloudiness across the region. It appears that dense smoke is mixed with the clouds and is spreading to the northeast of the source into western Montana from the fires in central Idaho. Fires near Pocatello and Blackfoot are producing smoke plumes that extend to the northeast into the northwest corner of Wyoming and are about 100 km wide. Manitoba/Upper Mississippi Valley: Two areas of smoke are seen that are associated with the fires in Idaho. One area is entrained with a large cloud mass over central Manitoba extending from southwest to northeast across central Lake Winnipeg and moving northeast. Another area of thin smoke is from southwest Minnesota into north central Iowa. California: A fire in the Sequoia National Forest near Hume is producing a narrow plume (about 10 km wide) of moderately dense smoke extending eastward into northern Inyo county. A fire over northern Monterey county near Soledad is producing a smoke plume that extends (and is moving) to the southeast along the eastern Monterey border into the southeast portion of the county. The plume is about 30 km wide at its furthest extent. Lower Mississippi Valley: Numerous fires are seen over Louisiana, southern Arkansas and eastern Texas and several have modest smoke plumes associated with them (mainly less than 50 km long). The longest plume is about 100 km from a blaze in northeast Louisiana. All of the plumes are moving to the southwest. Ruminski