DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z August 19, 2006.
Washington/Oregon/Idaho/Montana/British Columbia/Saskatchewan: The cluster of large fires burning in the Okanogan National Forest in north central Washington state were continuing to emit a large quantity of moderately dense to locally dense smoke which was moving in north NE direction across southern British Columbia Province of southwestern Canada into western Saskatchewan province of Canada. Three large fires in southwestern Hood River county, southern Clackamas county and along the border of Linn and Deschutes counties are producing moderately dense to locally dense plumes of smoke that is swirling around northwestern corner of Oregon. The residual smoke from the burning of the large fire along Linn and Deschutes counties of Oregon both yesterday and this morning has moved northward and covered the west of Washington. Because of the southeastward moving of the residual smoke in Okanogan National Forest this morning, the eastern Washington, the Idaho panhandle, and portion of western Montana has been covered by a thin plume of smoke. Northern California: Large fires in Siskiyou and Trinity Counties of northern California are producing a moderately dense to locally dense batch of smoke that is spreading eastward in lower level and moving westward in high level; therefore, the smoke has covered the four counties(Siskiyou, Del Norte, Humboldt, and Trinity) of northwestern corner of California. Nevada/Utah/Wyoming: The large fire burning in central Elko County of northeastern Nevada is producing a thin to moderately dense plume of smoke that is moving east NE into the northwestern point of Utah. A fire along the border of Elko county in Nevada and Box Elder county in Utah is producing a narrow plume of moderately dense smoke that is moving east NE across northern Great Salt Lake to the boundary between Box Elder and Cache counties of Utah. Oklahoma/Texas: The fire in Atoka county of Oklahoma is still burning this evening and producing a moderately dense to locally dense plume of smoke that is moving north then west and has covered all of Pittsburg county and portion of Atoka, Coal, and Hughes counties of Oklahoma. A fire in northern Palo Pinto county of Texas started burning this evening and is producing a moderately dense plume of smoke that is moving northeast and has extended to central Young county of Texas. Zhong