DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0045Z SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
Southland: Numerous fires across AL and MS produced narrow plumes of thin smoke that extended and moved WSW to W that were on average about 10-15km wide. Some of the more significant plumes were from fires in SE Sumter county, AL and the central boarder of Leake and Neshoba counties in MS. Each plume extended about 100km. Arkansas: Fires in the southern 1/3 and SErn portion of the state were producing distinct stronger moderately dense puffs of smoke within a broader thin smoke plume that would move to the WNW to NW extending about 50-75km. The most significant plumes originated from fires in: far North Central and NE Lincoln county, NW Dallas county, ext. SE Nevada county, and SE Cleveland county. In Oklahoma: A very similar fire to those in AR in central Pushmata county produced smoke that moved due N and covered much of the middle 2/3rds of the county as it extends into far southern Latimer county. New Mexico: A fire along the southern forested regions of the Nacimento Mtns in central Sandoval county is producing a 5km wide plume of thin smoke that extends ESE to the county line where I-25 crosses into Santa Fe county. A fire E of Gallina and N of Coyote in Rio Arriba county is producing thin smoke that extends due east across the Rio Chama river valley not more than 25km. Arizona: Two distinct fires in far SW Coconino county in the Coconino Nat'l forest are producing thin to moderate smoke that extends NE over to Holbrook, AZ in a 25km wide plume. The eastern fire is more active than its western counterpart. Southern California: The Hidden fire in N Tulare county and unnamed fire along the N. Kings River in E Fresno county have been producing moderate to dense smoke throughout the day that has remained in the local valleys surrounding the fires...where it can be quite dense. However, as the day progresses thin to moderately dense smoke has been expanding over the mountains toward the E from the unnamed fire as far as the NV/CA line in northern Inyo county and S Cottonwood Range and N. Paramint Range in central Inyo. Interestingly, moderate smoke from the Hidden fire has sunk into the lower slopes of the Sierras and is moving NW along the flanks across N Tulare, E Fresno county into Mariposa county. Northern California: Small agricultural fire in the far north of the Sacramento Valley have produced small puffs of thin to moderate smoke that are generally moving north covering very limited areas. The Klamath Complex (and former Blue2/Siskiyou complexes) continue to be active in 4 separate areas: 1) Along central Del Norte and Siskiyou county line (most dense smoke) – moderate 2-3) Extreme W Siskiyou county (central and southern) and a 4) new fire in N Humboldt county. Each area is producing thin to moderate smoke that extends NE. It covers most of E Siskiyou county and portions of southern Josephine and Jackson counties in Oregon. Oregon: Dense high clouds are moving in obscuring much of state, though moderate smoke from the Lonesome complex could be seen moving ENE across C Klamath county in a 40km wide swath. Gallina