DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0115Z July 11, 2007
Georgia and offshore waters: An active portion of the old Turnaround fire along the narrow strip of Ware county between Clinch and Charlton Counties is still producing moderate to thin smoke that is moving ENE over Glynn county and out to sea where it is melding with a larger area of yesterday's smoke and haze...into a large (but dying) complex of thunderstorms over the Gulf Stream, SW of the Outerbanks of NC. Oklahoma/Kansas: A few agricultural fires along the OK/KS boarder near Barber/Harper counties in KS and Alfalfa/Grant counties in OK are producing very thin smoke that is moving S into OK as far south as Enid and eastern Major county. A fire SW of Hooker, OK in Texas county is producing moderately dense smoke that is moving due W over N Guymon and as far west as Eva,OK. South Dakota: The Alabaugh fire in the far southern Black Hills in N Fall River county, SD is producing a plume of moderately dense smoke that is moving SE and covers most of Fall River and S Shannon county before it moves into NE and extends to around Thedford,NE in central Thomas county. Wyoming: Thin to moderate smoke from yesterday's burning is covering nearly all of SW WY but the most dense portion is a 50km wide line from the Wind River Range to near Elk Mountain, WY in Carbon county. Idaho/Wyoming: The Jim Sage fire in Southern ID is producing dense smoke that is moving ESE along the UT/ID state line into SW WY...across all of Sweetwater county. A fire in the Salmon River valley (near the Chamberlain fork in the river) in Idaho county is producing very dense smoke that is moving SE but fanning into a large wedge of smoke that only extends about 20km from the source. A small fire near Del Monte in southern Gem county has produced a puff of thin smoke that is moving SSE and covers all of Ada county. Nevada: The Highway 93 Complex in NE Nevada is producing moderately dense smoke that was moving in all eastward directions but blocked by the range of mtns along the NV/UT line, but recently the smoke is pushing due south along the range as far south as Alt US-93. Washington: The Little Chopaka fire along the US/CN boarder is producing moderately dense to dense smoke that is moving due south along the eastern flanks of the Cascade Range as far south as Twisp or SW Okanogan county. The Easy Street fire is producing moderately dense smoke that is moving SW to I-90. Oregon: The Egley Complex has exploded in size and intensity today with expansion of surrounding fires as well in NW Harney, SW Crook and S Grant counties (Ochoco Nat'l Forest) and is currently producing very dense smoke that covers all of SW OR acorss Harney and Malheur counties. Light smoke is slowly getting to SW ID. Elsewhere in Oregon... moderate and thin smoke in the upper atmosphere completely covers all of Oregon and west across the Pacific around the northern side of the upper level cyclone. California/Nevada/Utah/N Arizona/W Colorado: Numerous thunderstorms have produced high-level cirrus debris clouds that have blocked detection of smoke, though enough breaks in these clouds make it evident that most of the SW US north of 34N is covered with at least thin smoke with some areas of moderate and dense smoke very near active burn areas such as Milford Flat, in central UT, the Antelope Complex in NE CA, the Black Rock Gulch and Onieda Narrows fires in NW AZ. Alaska/N Yukon and NW Northwest Territories: It is very difficult to determine smoke from weather cloud so far north in AK today due to the density of the cloud cover. Thin smoke can be seen in breaks between the cloud north of 65N between 150W and 125W. Gallina