DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1630Z September 22, 2007

Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, and New York:
A swath of haze mixed with thin remnant smoke extends from Kansas/Oklahoma
through the Mississippi Valley and is now reaching slightly into western
New York/Pennsylvania.  The swath is moving toward the east northeast.
The smoke/haze covers much of northern Oklahoma, southern Kansas,
southern and central Missouri, southern and central Illinois, southern
and central Indiana, most of Ohio, northwestern Pennsylvania, and western
New York. In addition, agricultural fires in Arkansas have already begun
to appear this morning with a particularly bright hotspot near the Grant
County-Dallas County border producing a narrow plume of dense smoke that
extends southwestward.

Wyoming:
A narrow light to moderate smoke plume extends northeastward from the
fire near the border of Natrona and Johnson Counties.

Pacific Northwest:
Cloud cover is hampering smoke detection over much of the Pacific
Northwest and so far we cannot detect any of the fires/smoke seen last
night in Oregon and Idaho (and to a lesser extent, Washington).

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.