DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1630Z June 28, 2006.
Central Canada/Northern Plains/Upper Midwest/Upper and Middle Mississippi Valley/Upper Great Lakes/Ohio Valley: A large area of moderately dense smoke is pushing southeast from Saskatchewan/Manitoba/Ontario into north and south Dakota across Minnesota/Iowa and into Wisconsin/Michigan and as far south as Illinois, Indiana and northern Missouri. The area of thickest smoke is wrapping up with an upper level low in eastern Wisconsin and western Michigan and stretching from Manitoba across eastern North Dakota, western Michigan into northern Iowa/Illinois and across Wisconsin/Michigan as mentioned above. Great Basin/Southwest/Southern Plains/Lower Mississippi Valley/Southeast: Several large wildfires in northern Arizona, southern Utah, northern California and northern Nevada has generated an extensive plume of smoke that stretches from the southern Idaho-northern Utah border southeastward across northwest Arizona-southwest Colorado and most of New Mexico, then eastward across central Texas-northern Louisiana-southern Mississippi/Alabama and east northeast into Georgia and South Carolina. The smoke is moderately dense through Texas and thins out across Louisiana to Alabama and very thin across Georgia/South Carolina. Kibler