DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z September 22, 2007

Lower and Mid Mississippi Valley:
Numerous ag fires were producing light plumes of smoke that moved
generally to the southwest in the Lower Mississippi Valley but towards
the north northwest in the mid Mississippi Valley.

Wyoming/Utah:
A fire in Natrona County, Utah, resulted in a thin smoke plume that
extended into South Dakota.  A fire in Daggett County, Utah, generated
a moderately to isolated dense smoke plume that extended to the east
northeast into Wyoming.

Oregon:
The Saddle Gulch fire was producing a moderately dense plume of smoke
that extended 185 km to the northeast across north central Idaho.
An additional complex of fires farther north along the Idaho-Washington
border resulted in light smoke plumes that extended northeast into
northwest Montana.

Thick smoke extended 80 km to the east of a blaze in Klamath County.


North Central and Southern Plains/Middle and Lower Mississippi Valley:
Remnant haze and smoke was detected with the rising sun from the
southern Plains northward to the Great Lakes and northern Ohio Valley.
This residual smoke was also seen at sunset but was less prominent.

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.