DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0115Z September 20, 2006

Southern California:
The large fire in NE Ventura county continues to produce a plume of very
dense smoke. The smoke stretches to the NE to southern Inyo County and
southern Nevada.

Northern California:
Fires in N Trinity County produced a plume of dense smoke that drifted
to the SE over SW Shasta and N Tehama. Thin smoke also drifted eastward
from fires in Sierra and El Dorado Counties.

Texas:
A fire in S Jefferson County caused a narrow plume of thin ash that
extended southward over the Gulf of Mexico.

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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.