DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z SEPTEMBER 1, 2008
California and western Nevada: A fire in Fresno County, one in El Dorado County and another near the border of El Dorado and Alpine Counties (near the Nevada border) are producing plumes of light smoke that extend toward the east northeast. In Inyo County, there are areas of blowing dust (blowing eastward into Nevada). Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and northeastern Nevada: Cloud cover is hindering smoke detection, but through cloud breaks the East Slide Rock Ridge fire in Nevada, the South Barker fire in Idaho, the Gunbarrel fire in Wyoming and the Dunn Mtn Assist fire in Montana could be observed today. As the clouds moved eastward, light to moderate smoke plumes were observed from the South Barker and East Slide Rock Ridge fires extending toward the northeast while any plumes from the Gunbarrel and Dunn Mtn Assist fires continue to be covered by clouds. Central U.S. A quasi-stationary area of haze mixed with light remnant smoke from previous days western fires extends from eastern North Dakota/western Minnesota south to Oklahoma. Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina: An area of haze probably also mixed with light smoke from previous days western fires extends from southern Illinois, across Kentucky and Tennessee, and into southern West Virginia, southern Virginia and northern North Carolina. Alaska: The fire in eastern Yukon-Koyukuk continues to burn. The light smoke plume extends northwestward tonight.