DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z October 14, 2006
Eastern Arkansas: Numerous agricultural burns covering mainly the eastern portion of Arkansas were emitting brief puffs of smoke which had combined to form rather large areas of thin smoke which spread eastward toward northwestern Mississippi and western Tennessee (including the Memphis area). California: As usual, moderately dense to locally dense was being produced by the ongoing fires in Trinity and Siskiyou Counties of northwestern California. Today, the smoke was primarily moving in a westward direction but erratic winds were also present causing the smoke to also fan out in multiple directions. Moderately dense smoke was also observed fanning out to the north and south from a fire in Lassen County of northeastern California. Another round of what are believed to be mainly agricultural burns in the Sacramento Valley was responsible for an area of mostly thin smoke which moved northward during the afternoon. Washington/Oregon/Idaho/Western Montana: Smoke producing fires were widely scattered across the region with the most active smoke producers being in central and northeastern Oregon as well as central Idaho and portions of the Idaho Panhandle. The smoke plumes from the fires over central and northeastern Oregon had combined to form a large thin to moderately dense area of smoke with embedded dense batches of smoke closer to the actual fires. The area of smoke was moving eastward and covered central and eastern Oregon as well as southeastern Washington and was beginning to move into Idaho just before sunset. JS