DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2345Z November 1, 2006
South Dakota: Two fires in the Black Hills are producing narrow plumes of moderately dense smoke that extend to the southeast. The fires are in southern Custer county and along the Pennington/Lawrence county line and the plumes extend about 75 km from the source. Kansas/Missouri: Several fires in Kansas and Missouri produced brief puffs of smoke that drifted mainly to the south and dissipated. The smoke was mainly thin and the fires were in Wallace, Phillips and Riley counties in Kansas and in southern Ray county in Missouri. Texas Panhandle: Fires along the Dallam/Sherman border and in southern Castro county produced brief puffs of thin to moderately dense smoke that drifted to the southwest. New Mexico: A blaze in northern Otero county produced an area of mainly thin smoke in the vicinity of the fire. However, clouds moved over the region and made smoke detection difficult in the late afternoon/evening. Arizona: Blazes in northwest Gila, southeast Coconino and along the southern Apache/Navajo border produced localized smoke plumes of thin to moderately dense smoke in the morning and early afternoon. Clouds then prevented detection. Utah: A fire in central Garfield county produced a narrow smoke plume of thin density that drifted to the northeast. California: A fire in southeast Fresno county produced a narrow, moderately dense smoke plume that extended to the northeast toward Inyo county. Northern Idaho/western Montana/British Columbia: A tremendous number of agricultural and prescribed burns in this area were seen again today. Smoke was not detected, however a mass of clouds made detection of smoke difficult. Ruminski