DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0145Z SEPTEMBER 21, 2008
Oregon: Extensive cloud cover precludes smoke detection over much of Oregon. California/Nevada: The long running fires in Del Norte and western Siskiyou counties continue to burn. Cloud cover is hindering the full extent of the smoke but an area of moderately dense smoke can be seen moving to the east into central and eastern Siskiyou county. A few small puffs of smoke were seen drifting north from fires in Butte and Glenn counties. The ongoing fires in eastern Fresno and northern Tulare counties were producing moderately dense and dense smoke in the vicinity of the fires. Light smoke was spreading to the southwest, reaching the Kings/Tulare border, and also to the east extending into southern Esmeralda and Nye counties in Nevada. Montana/Idaho: A fire in western Lincoln county blew up in the afternoon. An area of light to moderately dense smoke was seen drifting to the northwest into extreme northern Idaho before clouds moved over the area. Another fire near Swan Lake along the Flathead/Lake county border had a narrow plume of light smoke extending to the northwest into western Flathead. Northern Great Plains and Great Lakes: Residual smoke from the fires in the Pacific Northwest extended from southern Saskatchewan, northeast Montana and the Dakotas eastward across southern Manitoba, Minnesota, Wisconsin, the northern half of Michigan and adjoining areas of Lakes Huron, Superior and Michigan. The smoke was moderately dense across portions of southeast Minnesota, central Wisconsin and northern Michigan and mainly light elsewhere. Texas/Louisiana: Fires in Webster parish Louisiana and in San Augustine and extreme southeast Anderson counties in east Texas had narrow plumes of light to moderately dense smoke moving to the southwest within about 50 km from the fire. Ruminski