Tuesday, July 10, 2007

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0115Z July 11, 2007

Georgia and offshore waters:
An active portion of the old Turnaround fire along the narrow strip of
Ware county between Clinch and Charlton Counties is still producing
moderate to thin smoke that is moving ENE over Glynn county and out
to sea where it is melding with a larger area of yesterday's smoke and
haze...into a large (but dying) complex of thunderstorms over the Gulf
Stream, SW of the Outerbanks of NC.

Oklahoma/Kansas:
A few agricultural fires along the OK/KS boarder near Barber/Harper
counties in KS and Alfalfa/Grant counties in OK are producing very
thin smoke that is moving S into OK as far south as Enid and eastern
Major county.
A fire SW of Hooker, OK in Texas county is producing moderately dense
smoke that is moving due W over N Guymon and as far west as Eva,OK.

South Dakota:
The Alabaugh fire in the far southern Black Hills in N Fall River county,
SD is producing a plume of moderately dense smoke that is moving SE and
covers most of Fall River and S Shannon county before it moves into NE
and extends to around Thedford,NE in central Thomas county.

Wyoming:
Thin to moderate smoke from yesterday's burning is covering nearly all
of SW WY but the most dense portion is a 50km wide line from the Wind
River Range to near Elk Mountain, WY in Carbon county.

Idaho/Wyoming:
The Jim Sage fire in Southern ID is producing dense smoke that is moving
ESE along the UT/ID state line into SW WY...across all of Sweetwater
county.
A fire in the Salmon River valley (near the Chamberlain fork in the
river) in Idaho county is producing very dense smoke that is moving SE
but fanning into a large wedge of smoke that only extends about 20km
from the source.
A small fire near Del Monte in southern Gem county has produced a puff
of thin smoke that is moving SSE and covers all of Ada county.

Nevada:
The Highway 93 Complex in NE Nevada is producing moderately dense smoke
that was moving in all eastward directions but blocked by the range of
mtns along the NV/UT line, but recently the smoke is pushing due south
along the range as far south as Alt US-93.

Washington:
The Little Chopaka fire along the US/CN boarder is producing moderately
dense to dense smoke that is moving due south along the eastern flanks
of the Cascade Range as far south as Twisp or SW Okanogan county.
The Easy Street fire is producing moderately dense smoke that is moving
SW to I-90.

Oregon:
The Egley Complex has exploded in size and intensity today with expansion
of surrounding fires as well in NW Harney, SW Crook and S Grant counties
(Ochoco Nat'l Forest) and is currently producing very dense smoke that
covers all of SW OR acorss Harney and Malheur counties.  Light smoke is
slowly getting to SW ID.
Elsewhere in Oregon... moderate and thin smoke in the upper atmosphere
completely covers all of Oregon and west across the Pacific around the
northern side of the upper level cyclone.

California/Nevada/Utah/N Arizona/W Colorado:
Numerous thunderstorms have produced high-level cirrus debris clouds that
have blocked detection of smoke, though enough breaks in these clouds
make it evident that most of the SW US north of 34N is covered with at
least thin smoke with some areas of moderate and dense smoke very near
active burn areas such as Milford Flat, in central UT, the Antelope
Complex in NE CA, the Black Rock Gulch and Onieda Narrows fires in NW AZ.

Alaska/N Yukon and NW Northwest Territories:
It is very difficult to determine smoke from weather cloud so far north
in AK today due to the density of the cloud cover.  Thin smoke can be
seen in breaks between the cloud north of 65N between 150W and 125W.

Gallina

 


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.