DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z September 04, 2007
Northern Plains/Northern Rockies/Southern Canada: Wildfires in Idaho and western Montana have produced an area of thick smoke moving east across southern Canada and the northern Plains. The smoke can be seen stretching across parts of southeastern Alberta and southern Saskatchewan and parts of eastern Montana into north and western sections of North Dakota. Smoke has began to move into parts of southwestern Manitoba. Light to moderately dense smoke stretches into central/eastern North Dakota and into northern Minnesota and southern Manitoba (central/eastern sections). Smoke is beginning to become more visible in Idaho as clouds continue to move north NE and out of the region. An area of moderately dense smoke can be seen moving north from Wyoming into southern Montana and southwestern North Dakota. The smoke is from wildfires burning in northern Wyoming. Central/Southern Plains/Lower/Middle Mississippi Valley/Ohio Valley: An area of moderately dense smoke can be seen moving north across eastern Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri and into parts of southern/central Iowa, most of Illinois and then moving east into Indiana. Light smoke stretches across parts of central Oklahoma, Kansas and north into central Nebraska. Light smoke is also detected in southeast South Dakota, northern/central Iowas and southern Minnesota/Michigan. The smoke is most likely from the numerous agricultural/prescribed fires burning across central Oklahoma/Kansas, central Arkansas and southern Missouri California/Nevada: A fire on the Lassen/Plumas county border in the Plumas National Forest is producing an area of moderately dense to dense smoke moving west across Lassen county and into the county of Washoe in northwest Nevada. An area of moderately dense smoke is seen moving across central California and into part of western Nevada. The northern edge of the smoke just moved east of the Lake Tahoe region with the southern edge on the eastern edge of the San Joaquin Valley. A fire in eastern Santa Clara county is emitting a narrow plume of smoke moving southeast across the county and into Merced. A fire on the border of Tehama and Trinity counties (Trinity National Forest) is emitting a narrow plume of smoke moving east across central Tehama county. J Kibler