DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z August 28, 2007
Pennsylvania: Smoke from an apparent fire along the Armstrong/Indiana county border in western Pennsylvania is slowly dispersing through the counties. The smoke is light to locally moderately dense. Texas: Moderate to locally dense smoke from a narrow plume in coastal Chambers county east of Houston is moving to the west-northwest. Oklahoma/Kansas: A large number of agricultural/prescribe fires are seen in south central Kansas and north central Oklahoma. Several of these mainly short-lived fires have produced small puffs of thin smoke that are quickly moving to the north-northeast. The largest plumes were with fires in northern Osage county in Oklahoma and northwest Decatur county in northwest Kansas. Michigan: A fire in northwest Mackinac county in the upper peninsula had a very narrow plume of thin smoke that extended to the north-northeast across eastern Lake Superior into Ontario. California: The long running fire complex in Santa Barbara county is greatly diminished. The only smoke apparent is a small, narrow plume of thin smoke extending to the southwest almost reaching Point Conception. A fire in eastern Tulare county was hidden by clouds most of the day but a break in the clouds revealed a moderately dense smoke plume that was moving to the west. A couple of fires in the Sacramento Valley in southern Colusa and southern Sutter counties produced small plumes of thin smoke that mainly drifted to the north. A small burst of smoke was seen in far northwest Modoc county with the smoke drifting to the southeast. Oregon: Fires in northern Jefferson and northern Malheur counties were producing plumes of thin smoke that were moving to the south. The Jefferson plume was the larger of the 2 and it extended into southern Deschutes. Washington: A fire in northern Chelan was producing a plume of thick smoke that was moving across southern Okanogan and northern Douglas counties. Idaho/Montana/Wyoming: The huge fires in central Idaho and western Montana are producing numerous plumes of moderate to dense smoke that have all merged together to form a large mass of smoke that extends from southern Idaho and central Valley counties eastward across Idaho and into western Montana reaching into Judith Basin and Cascade counties. The large fire complex in Blaine county had a separate plume of moderate to dense smoke that was extending to the east into Jefferson, Clark and Fremont counties. A fire in the Bighorn mountains of Wyoming along the Bighorn/Sheridan county border near Granite Pass had a narrow plume of thin smoke that extended to the east-northeast into southeast Montana. Hawaii: Smoke being generated from the lava flows which are moving across vegetated areas is mixing with the vog and swirling around to the southwest of South Point on the Big Island. This blend of smoke and vog reaches nearly 200 km to the west of South Point and is moderate to locally thick. Another area is further west from this and is south of Kauai and Niihau although it is not clear how much, if any, smoke there is mixed with this batch of vog. Alaska: A fire north of the Brooks Range about 160 km southwest of Deadhorse was producing a moderate to dense plume of smoke that was moving to the south into the Brooks Range this evening but also had smoke that extended north of the blaze from earlier. A fire east of the Yukon between Fort Yukon and Circle in eastern Alaska was producing moderate to dense smoke that was moving to the south and southeast within about a 50 km radius of the blaze. Ruminski