DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z OCTOBER 13, 2007
Oregon/Washington/British Columbia: A lot of fires lined up along the west coast of Oregon and Washington are burning. Due to clouds not many smoke plumes can be seen in satellite imagery. However, several fires in Clallam, Jefferson, and Grays Harbor counties of western Washington are producing thin to moderately dense plumes of smoke that are moving southeastward and influencing locally. Many fires are burning in central and southern British Columbia including Vancouver Island and some of them are producing moderately dense to locally dense plumes of northeasterly smoke. Arizona: A fire in southern Coconino county of central Arizona is producing a thin plume of smoke that is moving northeasterly. Louisiana/Mississippi/Alabama/Georgia/South Carolina/Arkansas/Missouri: Many many many fires in this area are burning and most of them are producing thin to moderately dense plumes of smoke. Some of them are along the Mississippi river and the other most visible ones are as follows: Arkansas: along Duachita and Calhoun county boundary; Louisiana: Claiborne and Cameron counties; Alabama: Coosa and Conecum counties; Georgia: Wilkes county; South Carolina: Florence county. The smoke plumes are moving southward except those in Georgia and South Carolina are moving mainly eastward. Montana/North Dakota: A fire in western Powder River of Montana is producing a moderately dense to locally dense plume of smoke that is moving northwesterly into Rosebud county. A fire in northeastern Stutsman of North Dakota is producing a moderately dense to locally dense plume of smoke that is moving southeasterly into western Barnes county. Zhong