DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0246Z JUNE 3, 2008
Northern Minnesota/Northern Michigan/Southern Manitoba/Southern Ontario: An area of moderate to locally very dense smoke was located this evening over extreme northern Minnesota and extending east through the arrowhead region and into the southern half of Lake Superior and the UP of Michigan. The smoke plume began to be obscured by cloud cover from approaching weather system during the evening but it is believed that the densest portion of the plume was located primarily along the south shore of Lake Superior and into the UP of Michigan. New Mexico/Texas: A rather large fire developed rapidly throughout the afternoon just north of the Brantley Reservoir in Eddy County. From this fire a very large and dense smoke plume rapidly moved east into north central Texas and the panhandle region. Around sunset the densest portion of the plume appeared to be centered very near the city of Lubbock. Louisiana/Mississippi/Arkansas: A large number of agricultural fires were detected over the southern Mississippi River Valley this evening. Several of these fires featured northeastward moving moderately dense smoke plumes Manitoba: An extremely large fire continues to burn over central Manitoba between Cedar Lake and Lake Winnipeg. At sunset an expansive area of smoke was seen emanating nearly 100 miles to the east of this fire. A large section of the northern part of Lake Winnipeg was covered with extremely dense smoke with the densest portion of the plume continuing to travel southeastward. Hanna