DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1430Z September 9, 2005
Northern Rockies/Northern Plains/Upper Midwest/Upper and Middle Mississippi Valley/Ohio Valley: A large area of moderately dense smoke associated with the fires in central Idaho is spreading across a large section of the U.S. The smoke seen in morning GOES-10 satellite imagery begins in northwest Montana near the Great Bear/Bob Marshall/Scapegoat Wilderness with a nearly 200mi wide smoke plume extending east across the northern third of Montana and North Dakota and southern parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan. The moderately dense smoke plume then extends southeast through all of Minnesota and the western half of Wisconsin to Illinois/Indiana/Kentucky where it then extends easterly along an axis approximated by the Ohio River to western portions of Ohio. Idaho: Fires in central Idaho are producing a dense area of smoke which is mixed with clouds from approaching weather system over the Pacific northwest. The smoke appears to extend to northwest Montana where it joins the above mentioned plume near the Wilderness. Hanna