DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z October 22, 2006
Florida: A small thin localized batch of smoke was observed drifting westward from a cluster of agricultural fires just southeast of Lake Okeechobee in southern Florida. Texas: Fires in Hansford County and close to the Sherman-Moore County border of the northern Texas panhandle were emitting occasional puffs of smoke during the afternoon which quickly spread southward. The long narrow thin smoke plume from the Sherman-Moore County fire appeared to move across Amarillo during the late afternoon. Arizona: A single fire in western Coconino County of northwestern Arizona was producing a moderately dense smoke plume which was travelling in a westward direction toward the Arizona-Nevada state border. California: A relatively small moderately dense smoke plume developed and moved northward in the late afternoon and early evening from a fire in Tuolumne County in east central California. More agricultural fires in the Sacramento Valley of north central California were emitting thin to locally moderately dense smoke plumes which spread quickly to the south-southwest. Fires in Humboldt and Siskiyou Counties of northwestern California were responsible for thin to moderately dense areas of smoke which were moving mainly in a northerly direction. Oregon: A rather significant moderately dense to even locally dense smoke smoke plume was observed moving westward from a fire in western Jefferson County of west central Oregon. Washington: A long narrow moderately dense smoke plume was visible moving westward from a fire in western Yakima County of south central Washington. Several fires along the western portion of the Olympic Peninsula were responsible for an area of moderately dense smoke which was moving in various directions due to erratic winds in the area. Western Canada: Fires were detected scattered across British Columbia including Vancouver Island. Several of these fires had visible smoke plumes which were generally not that extensive with the exception of the Vancouver Island plumes. JS