DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2345Z November 26, 2005
Smoke: Arizona: Thin to moderate smoke from a fire in Coronado Nat'l Forest extends NE 47km and is about 11km wide. California: Thin smoke from a fire near Wengler and Montgomery Creek in Shasta county extends SW 22km and is about 10km wide. Two fires near San Joaquin and Kerman in Fresno county are producing thin to moderately dense smoke that is mixing with a larger dust/sand plume which appears moderately dense on satellite. The airbourne dust and sand covers Fresno county NE of I-5, Kings county, W Tulare county W of SR-99, and N Kerns county NW of Bakersfield Other dust/sand plumes: California: A dense fan of dust/sand from the Owens Lake Bed in Inyo county extends S to SE from the Lake Bed to near the S county line E of US-395. A thin plume of dust/sand from the deserts of E San Diego/W Imperial county covers the Salton Sea and extends to the Colorado River and is as wide as Imperial county. Nevada: A moderately dense plume of dust/sand from the dry lake SE of Coaldale in Esmeralda county extends 131km SSE along US-95 (to near Bare Mt.) and is about 20km wide. Arizona: A moderately dense intermittent plume of dust/sand extends E from the dry lake bed E of Cochise in Cochise county to the NM state line and is on average 5km wide. The plume is over or just S of I-10. Mexico (Chihuahua): Dense dust/sand from the Southern half of the dry lakes N of Santo Domingo (NW of Villa Ahumada/W of Lucero) in N Chihuahua extends E to the TX boarder. The plume is 40km wide. A large dust/sand storm of thin to moderate density is moving NE slowly from it source near the coastal deserts E of Isla Tiburon and extends to the first ranges of the Sierra Marde Occidental N of Hermosillo. Gallina