Wednesday, June 27, 2007

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0045Z June 28, 2007

South Dakota/Wyoming:
Thunderstorms across the entire state of Wyoming are obscuring the
large Horse Creek fire in western WY.  However, smoke from yesterday's
emissions continues to drift E across SD.  This area is moderate to dense
in consistency and extends from Big Stone county in MN across to Tripp
county with the most dense from Clark to Brule county.  The area is about
1/3rd the width of the state.  Thin smoke from this mornings burnings
can be seen in the low sun angle over the Black Hills to the Badlands.

California:
Smoke from the White fire in Kern county is thin to moderately dense
and extends ESE to Rodgers (Dry) Lake and is about 10km wide on average.
A fire near San Ramon but in Alameda county has produced a puff of white
smoke that is rapidly moving east along I-580 t o around Stockton.

NW Canada:
The moderately dense remnant smoke from the large fire on the other side
of the Mackenzie river from Norman Wells is suspended very high in the
atmosphere above the clouds and is still detectable, in an elongated
ribbon from western Melville and Banks Islands down across western NW
Territories and over western portions of Great Bear Lake. It is around
the area between Great Bear and Great Slave Lakes that this remnant
smoke merges with dense to very dense smoke crossing over the Great
Slave Lake to its origins with a few fires.  The first in the wilderness
just SW of Fort Resolution (west of Slave River), the other is the very
large wildfire complex that is overtaking much of the northern portions
of Wood Buffalo Nat'l Park in NE Alberta.  The northern portion of the
fire in the Nat'l Park is the main producer of the dense smoke.

Saskatchewan:
A fire on the SE shores of Cree Lake is producing very dense smoke that is
not moving very much but more expanding outward in all directions...with
some moderate to dense smoke being pulled SE toward the SW tip of Reindeer
Lake in the NW flow.

OTHER SIGNIFICANT FIRES:
Other fires such as the Angora fire (near S Lake Tahoe) and Four Mile
fire (SE Black Hills of SD) are not producing visible smoke at this time.
The Woodland fires and other SW NM fire complexes, the Horse Creek fire
in WY, and Linville Complex in the Appalachian Mtns of NC are producing
smoke, but due to weather clouds it is untraceable at this time.

Gallina

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.