DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0115Z OCTOBER 23, 2007
Southern California and Baja California: A multitude of fires continue to rage across southern California and produce a large area of smoke that extends over 1200 km into the Pacific Ocean. Much of the smoke close to the California coast is dense to very dense. The most active fires with the most smoke were seen along the Ventura/Los Angeles county border near Pyramid Lake, in western Los Angeles county, in extreme southwest San Bernardino, in Orange county near Mission Viejo, and in several locations in San Diego county. In San Diego county there was a large fire in the northwest part of the county near Fallbrook, along the southern border between Chula Vista and Tecate and a large cluster of fires extending from near Santa Ysabel to near Rancho Sante Fe. Arizona/New Mexico: A fire in northwest Coconino county on the north rim of the Grand Canyon is producing a narrow plume of thin smoke that extends to the southwest just reaching the northwest Yavapai border. A fire in southern Navajo county was producing a narrow plume of thin smoke that extended to the southwest just reaching the northeast tip of Maricopa county. A fire in northeast Sandoval county New Mexico produced a small plume of thin smoke that drifted to the southeast. Oregon: A slew of smoke plumes were seen with fires over western Oregon, mainly over the southwest. The smoke was seen over Curry, Klamath, Jackson and Lake counties but the plumes were confined to the immediate vicinity of the fires – except for the Curry county fire where the smoke plume extended about 190 km to the southwest into the Pacific. Additional plumes were seen in Tillamook and Wasco counties. Texas/Kansas: A few agricultural fires produced small, thin smoke plumes that drifted to the south. These fires were over western Moore and western Castro counties in Texas and Edwards and Stafford counties in southwest Kansas. Ruminski