DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z July 22, 2007
California: A fire in central Santa Barbara county in the Sierra Madre Mountains is producing a moderately dense plume of smoke moving southwest and staying within county borders. In northeast Tulare county a fire is emitting a moderately dense plume of smoke moving north into Inyo and Fresno counties. Western/Central U.S/Central Canada: A large area of moderately dense to dense smoke can be seen across most of Northern and Central North America; many from fires burning across the Northern/Central Intermountain United States (ID – Owyhee, Twin Falls, Boise, Valley, Adams and Idaho counties, NV – Elko county, UT – Box Elder, Tooele, Salt Lake counties, OR – Wallowa county). Wildfires in Montana in the counties of Lewis and Clark, Missoula, and Lake are also contributing to the large outbreak of smoke. Very thick smoke is directly coming from the source, then moderate smoke spreads across Wyoming, Montana, southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and even into western Ontario. This smoke is meeting with the smoke coming southward from the Canadian wildfires. Light smoke then spreads across the Southern/Central Plains, Upper to Lower Mississippi Valley and as far east as the Upper Great Lakes, Tennessee and Ohio Valleys. Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba/Ontario/Quebec/Nunavut/NW Territories): Multiple wildfires over SE NW Territories and northern Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba (SE of Great Slave Lake and in/around Lake Athabasca and east of Reindeer Lake and north of Lake Winnipeg) have produced a large area of moderate to dense smoke that is moving NE across the northern sections of the mentioned provinces and across the Northwest Territories. Smoke then becomes moderate as it continues to move northeast. Residual light smoke can be seen moving south across eastern Manitoba, Ontario and western Quebec and meeting up with smoke in the U.S. from the wildfires in the western US. Oklahoma: A fire in Texas county is producing a light plume of smoke moving north into the counties of Stevens, Grant, Stanton, Hamilton and Kearny in Kansas. J Kibler