DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0045Z OCTOBER 10, 2007
Northern Idaho and Western Montana: A large concentration of fires were noted on satellite imagery this evening over northern Idaho from mostly Idaho county north to Boundary county. These fires helped combine to form a large moderately dense to locally very dense smoke plume that covered portions of Clearwater/Shoshone/Latah/Benewah/Kootenai/Bonner counties of northern Idaho. The smoke plume was lifting rapidly to the north around sunset and was also pushing into the western portion of Lincoln and Sanders county of northwest Montana. Florida Panhandle: A fire earlier this afternoon near the Gulf coast of Franklin county produced a narrow but moderately to locally very dense smoke plume that extended from southern Franklin and southern Gulf counties into the near offshore waters of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. Mid Atlantic states: Localized fire activity seemed to be most concentrated over portions of eastern North Carolina and southern Virginia. Several of these fires appeared to be producing mostly low density smoke plumes with occasional areas of moderate density smoke plumes. All of the smoke plumes were drifting towards the east at sunset. Texas Panhandle to Southwest Kansas: Concentrated fire activity over the region were producing numerous smoke plumes that were mostly drifting north. Some of the more noteworthy plumes were associated with fires over Sherman and Hansford counties in the northern Texas Panhandle and also over Stanton/Grant/Haskell/Seward counties of southwest Kansas. All of these fires were exhibiting smoke plumes of at least moderate density with localized areas of high density. Hanna