DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z August 27, 2006
Washington/Oregon: The large fires in Okanogan County of Washington have been produced locally dense smoke that is moving both to the south and north. The dense portion of the smoke covered central northern Washington and some of central southern British Columbia of Canada. Fires in central Columbia county of southeastern Washington are generating moderately dense areas of smoke extending southward into Umatilla and Union counties of Oregon and northward into Whitman county, WA. A big fire in Grant county of Oregon is producing a moderately dense plume of smoke moving to the south which has covered southwestern Grant and northwestern Marney counties of Oregon. Another fire in western Linn county in western Oregon produced a moderately dense plume of smoke moving both north and south. Idaho: A large fire in southern Valley county is producing a moderately dense plume of smoke that is fanning to the southwest and has covered almost all of Boise and Gem counties and portions of Valley and Custer counties. California/Nevada: Fires in Siskiyou and Trinity counties in California continued to produce locally dense smoke traveling southwest, which has covered portions of Siskiyou and Trinity counties and all of Humboldt county of California. A fire in eastern Tuolumne county of central eastern California is producing a moderately dense and narrow plume of smoke which is moving southwest across central Tuolumne county of California. A fire in Lincoln County, Nevada is producing a moderately dense plume of smoke fanning to the southeast and nearly reaching the three-corner area among Arizona, Nevada and Utah. Zhong