DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z June 23, 2006.

Southwestern US:

A fire in Arizona's Kaibab National Forest was producing a very dense
plume of smoke that extended 90 km to the east and south.  The Sedona
fire was generating a thin smoke plume that also extended 90 km to the
southwest. Cloud cover was making it difficult to discern smoke from
a large blaze in southern Catron County, New Mexico, but a smokey haze
was present on either side of the Arizona-New Mexico border.

California:

A narrow moderately dense smoke plume extended to the Pacific Ocean 85
km to the southwest of a fire in Santa Barbara County, CA. Blowing dust
was moving west across southwest San Bernardino and the western third
of Riverside counties.

Oregon:

Fires in Linn, Lane and Grant counties resulted in smoke plumes that
moved generally towards the east.

Florida:

A blaze in Palm Beach County produced a smoke plume that extended to the
southwest into Hendry County while another in Highlands County resulted
in a plume that extended towards the west and northwest across Hardee
County into eastern Manatee and Hillsborough counties.

Midwest:

A ribbon of residual smoke from fires in Arizona and Colorado stretched
from northeast Iowa southwestward into extreme northwest Missouri.

Colorado:

Smoke extended to the east of a fire in Garfield County.

Unless otherwise indicated:

Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.

Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.

A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.

Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.