DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0045Z June 28, 2007
Hawai'i: A fire on the western tip of Maui is producing moderately dense smoke that is drifting through the western portions of Kealaikahiki channel over the SE portions of Lana'i. 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