DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z MAY 1, 2006.
Oregon: A fire in northeast Harney county near Crane produced a moderately dense smoke plume this afternoon that eventually extended about 265 km to the east southeast into northeast Owyhee county in Idaho. Fires over southwest Lake and south central Klamath counties produced plumes of thin density that extended to the east. The plume from Lake county extended into southwest Harney and the plume from Klamath reached to the border with Lake county. Mexico: A large and intense fire in northern Coahuila state in the Serranias del Burro is producing a moderately dense smoke plume that extends about 100 km east of the fire to near the Texas border south of Del Rio. Numerous fires over the mountains of southern Chihuahua and northwest Durango states were producing smoke plumes that have congealed into a large mass of moderately dense to locally dense smoke over the entire region. Before sunset the movement of the smoke mass was generally to the east northeast. Gulf of Mexico: An east west oriented area of moderately dense smoke was over the west central Gulf of Mexico and drifting west. The area was roughly 125 km wide and extended along 25N from about 93W to the Mexican coast just south of Brownsville Texas. Another area of moderately dense smoke was over the Bay of Campeche in the southwest Gulf and extended northward into a large cloud mass associated with a frontal zone in the central Gulf. Numerous large fires over the northeast tip of the Yucatan peninsula were producing moderatley dense to locally dense smoke that was moving to the west along the northern Yucatan coast and just offshore. Ruminski