DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z June 27, 2007
Quebec: A fire on the SW portion of Lac Mistassini (NW shore) around Lac Bueil is producing a line of thin to moderate smoke that is moving SE over 305km to WNW of Baie-Comeau. The plume is about 35km wide. Florida: A fire in the western portions of the Avon Park Bombing and Gunnery Range in far Northern Highlands county is producing a line of thin smoke that extends due west about 69km to the 4 corners of Manatee, Hardee, Hillsborough and Polk counties. The plume is about 10km wide at most. South Dakota: The Four Mile fire in the SE Black Hills is producing moderate to dense smoke that is wafting in all directions minus SW to S. A moderate to dense plume of smoke is moving NE to Wall,SD but remains mainly NW of the Badlands. Another moderate area of smoke is moving NW into the Black Hills covering most of west central Pennington county west of Rapid City. Wyoming: The Horse Creek fire is producing convectively dense smoke (with towering pyrocumulonimbus seen on visible imagery) that is moving rapidly NE across western WY to around the Hot Springs, Park, Fremont county line along the Absaroka Mtns, then begins to thin out to thin density to the Spine of the Big Horn Mtns. The width is about 135km at the furthest NE extents covering all of Big Horn, Hot Springs, and Washakie counties. Closer to the fire the plume is on average 30-45km wide. Idaho: A fire in the Salmon River Valley of Idaho county around the Chamberlain River intersection is producing thin smoke that is remaining mostly in the river valleys and is moving West to around the Salmon Rive Mtns. California: The White fire in eastern Kern county is producing moderate smoke that is moving NE along the spine of the Tehachapi/El Paso Mtn. Ranges. The plume extends about 60km (almost to Randsburg) and is about 15km wide. The Angora fire on the south side of Lake Tahoe continues to emit dense smoke that has moved NE over S Pyramid Lake. However, thin smoke from early this morning and today's burning that was moving due north, has shifted to due E...so a large north to south area about 50km wide is moving into NV from around 41N to the southern latitudes of Douglas county as far east as US-95 at this time. Northwest Territories/Beaufort Sea: The smoke from yesterday's and today's burning of a large fire opposite the town of Norman Wells on the western side of the Mackenzie River (around 65N) is beginning to thin out but still has small areas of high concentrations but is mainly thin to moderate in density or being obscured by a passing midlevel cyclone...that is producing thunderstorms in the area of the fire. The smoke itself is being twisted by the cyclone into the shape of an 'S' that extends from the Beaufort Sea around 71N131W across the Mackenzier River delta along the eastern side of the Canadian Rockies, but all east of the Yukon line, where it bends back eastward around the fire region to the western tip of the Smith Arm of the Great Bear Lake, then due South to around the Nahanninat Park Reserve than west to into the Yukon Territory to Frances Lake. Gallina