DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0145Z July 19, 2007
California: A fire in Santa Barbara county (Sierra Madre Mountains) is producing an area of moderately dense to dense smoke moving northeast. Dense smoke is moving into southern San Luis Obispo, central Kern counties and moderately dense smoke into southern Tulare. Smoke is fanning southwest into parts of central/southern Santa Barbara county. Nevada/Idaho/Oregon/Washington: Numerous large wildfires are continuing to grow and are producing moderately dense to thick smoke across a large area of the western US. These wildfires are located in the counties of Lander, Eureka, White Pines, Elko, Humboldt and Pershing counties in Nevada. In Idaho wildfires are located in Twin Falls, Owyhee, Boise, Elmore, Valley, Idaho and Nez Perce. In Oregon the county of Wallowa. These wildfires are emitting a large area of smoke pushing north into central/northern Nevada, eastern Oregon, most of Idaho and western Montana. Residual smoke from the numerous wildfires can be seen stretching all the way into the central US and nearing the Mississippi Valley. Moderately dense to dense smoke is seen across a large part of Wyoming with lighter smoke in western and southern Nebraska, eastern Colorado, most of Kansas and Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle, eastern New Mexico, southern/central Missouri, and northwest Arkansas. Utah: A large wildfire in the counties of Washington and Kane (Zion National Park) is emitting an area of moderately dense to dense smoke north into eastern Beaver, Iron, and southern Sevier, western Garfield and Millard counties. In western Iron county (The Needle Ranges) a wildfire is producing an area of moderately dense smoke north into Beaver county with some smoke reaching into far eastern counties of southeast Nevada. Northwest Territories/Saskatchewan/Manitoba/Ontario/Northern US Large wildfires north of Lake Winnipeg and east/southeast of Reindeer Lake are emitting areas of dense to very dense smoke southwest across parts of northern/central Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Also, wildfires are burning in northern Saskatchewan and are producing moderately dense smoke moving northwest across the province and into southern sections of the Northwest Territories. Large wildfires burning east of Great Slave Lake are producing an area of moderately dense to dense smoke moving northwest across the territories. Residual smoke from the numerous wildfires burning across Canada and the US can be seen stretching from the Northwest Territories into parts of northern/central Saskatchewan. This narrow band of smoke links up with a large area of residual smoke seen moving southeastward from eastern Saskatchewan, central/southern Manitoba and Ontario and into the US. Smoke in the US extends across North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and the Great Lakes. J Kibler