DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z September 30, 2006
Arizona: A fire burning in Apache county just south of the town of Fort Defiance is producing an area of moderately dense smoke pushing east across the area and into Mckinley county in New Mexico. Baja California. A rather large fire about 35 km south of the California border is producing an area of dense smoke moving southeast over Baja California. California/Oregon/Washington/Idaho/Wyoming/Utah/British Columbia/Alberta: A wildfire burning in Tuolumne County (Yosemite National Park) is producing an area of moderately dense smoke moving north into Calaveras and Alpine counties. The long lasting wildfire burning in the Salmon and Trinity Alps Wilderness (Siskiyou and Trinity Counties) is continuing to produce a large area of smoke. The thickest smoke remains in northwest California and moves north into southwest Oregon. Additional smoke has spread across western/central Oregon and has moved as far north as southern Washington (northern edge reaches Mt. Rainier National Park). The smoke is also moving into the Pacific ocean, but due to thick clouds up and down the coast, smoke coverage cannot be seen or measured. An area of higher level and thin remnant smoke from the wildfire has spread across eastern Oregon east into southern Idaho, northern Utah, southwest Wyoming and the far northwestern edges of Colorado. A fire burning in Harney county near the town of Diamond and just south of Malheur Lake is emitting an area of dense smoke moving east into Malheur county. Another fire in the central section of the state in Deschutes county in the Maury Mountains is producing an area of dense smoke moving northeast. This fire is just north of the town of Hampton. A large wildfire in Boundary county (Kaniksu National Forest) is producing a dense smoke plume that is fanning east into northwest Montana and southeastern British Columbia. An additional fire northwest of the Boundary county fire in southeast British Columbia (46.9N/117.9W) is emitting a thick plume of smoke fanning east to near the Alberta border. Multiple wildfires burning in Clearwater county (Clearwater National Forest), Benewah county (St. Joe National Forest), Washington, Boise, Valley and Elmore counties (Boise and Payette National Forest) are producing areas of moderately dense to dense smoke moving east across Idaho and into western parts of Montana. Southeast/Lower Mississippi Valley/Southern Plains. Multiple agricultural/prescribed fires are burning across these regions producing narrow plumes of light to moderately dense smoke. J Kibler