DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0145Z SEPTEMBER 23, 2008
Ohio Valley and Mid Atlantic: An area of quite thin remnant smoke from the fires in the Pacific Northwest was seen stretching across southern Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, northern Virginia, southern Pennsylvania, Delaware and southern New Jersey. Southeast US and lower Mississippi Valley: Numerous smoke plumes were seen over southwest Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, the Bootheel of Missouri, Louisiana and east Texas. The plumes had light to occasionally moderately dense smoke that was drifting mostly to the west. Some of the larger plumes were associated with fires in Chambers and Sumter counties in Alabama, Lamar county in Texas and Mississippi county in Missouri. Oregon: A fire in southern Wasco county had a narrow plume of dense smoke that thinned out as it drifted to the east-southeast into Wheeler county. A fire in western Douglas county near Roseburg had a plume of moderately dense smoke that was drifting to the south and reached into extreme southeast Coos and northeast Curry counties. A pair of fires in eastern Douglas and extreme northeast Jackson counties had plumes of smoke that were moving east and merged together over northeast Klamath and northern Lake counties. The plume with the fire in northeast Jackson was moderately dense to dense, while the plume with the fire in Douglas was mainly light. California: The fire in western Siskiyou and Del Norte counties had moderately dense to locally dense plumes that were fanning out to the southeast and southwest, being influenced by the topography. The smoke moved into northern Humboldt and just reached the Trinity county border. The fires in eastern Fresno and northern Tulare counties continue to produce locally dense smoke which thins out as it moves out of the valley areas. The smoke covered most of northern Tulare and eastern Fresno counties and northeast Kings county. Idaho: A fire in Bonneville county a bit southeast of Idaho Falls had a narrow plume of thin smoke that extended to the northeast into southern Madison. Ruminski