DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z October 1, 2006
Baja California: A fire about 35 km south of the California border continues to burn producing a moderately dense plume of smoke heading to the south SE. Arizona: The fire burning yesterday in Apache county just south of the town of Fort Defiance is emitting a light plume of smoke moving northeast into Mckinley county in New Mexico. A small fire in Yavapai county just southeast of the town of Prescott is producing an area of light smoke moving northeast, but staying within the county border at this time. Northern California/Oregon/Washington/Idaho The wildfire burning in the Salmon and Trinity Alps Wilderness (Siskiyou and Trinity Counties) in continuing to produce a large area of thick smoke across northern California and southwest Oregon. Moderately dense smoke from this fire stretches northwest into the Pacific Ocean and north through most of western Oregon and into southeast Washington. Lighter smoke has moved east into central Oregon and northern/central Idaho. The wildfire in Harney county near the town of Diamond is producing an area of dense smoke moving northeast into Malheur county and the counties of Payette, Boise, and Gem in western Idaho. British Columbia/Alberta: Multiple fires are burning across the southern portions of the two provinces with some fires emitting narrow plumes of smoke moving north to northeast in direction. Idaho/Montana/Wyoming: The wildfire burning in Boundary County (Kaniksu National Forest) continues to produce a dense smoke plume moving to the east into northwest Montana and southeastern edges of British Columbia and almost reaching southwestern Alberta. Multiple wildfires burning in Clearwater county (Clearwater National Forest), Washington, Boise, Custer, Valley, and Elmore counties (Boise and Payette National Forests) are continuing to produce areas of moderately dense to dense smoke moving east across most of Idaho and into western part of Montana and now Wyoming. Utah: A fire in the Ashley National Forest (Duchesne county) is producing an area of moderately dense smoke moving east into the counties of Uintah and Rio Blanco/Moffat in Colorado. A small fire in Sanpete county is emitting a light plume of smoke moving north into Juab and Utah counties. Southeast/Lower Mississippi Valley/Southern Plains: Multiple agricultural/prescribed burns are burning across this area of the country emitting only light plumes of smoke. The largest of these fires is in Plaquemines county in the Texas Panhandle. The smoke is moving north into Randall and Deaf Smith counties. Northern Plains/Saskatchewan/Manitoba: Multiple agricultural burns are producing only light smoke across this region. Only a few of these fires are emitting smoke that can be seen in satellite imagery and the fires in Manitoba are west of the lakes. North Carolina: A fire in Beaufort county near the town of Pine town is emitting a moderately dense plume of smoke moving north into the counties of Washington, Bertie and Martin. J Kibler