DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z JUNE 17, 2008
Southeast US: The large fire complex over Tyrrell, Dare and Hyde counties in eastern North Carolina continue to produce locally dense smoke that becomes moderately dense as it moves east out over the Atlantic Ocean. Residual mainly light smoke smoke from this fire has also spread to the south and covers a broad area of the Southeast, including much of eastern North Carolina, most of South Carolina, eastern Georgia and the Florida Panhandle. A fire on the North Carolina/Virginia border in the Great Dismal Swamp is also producing locally dense smoke that was moving to the east and northeast across Virginia Beach and into the Atlantic. Lower Mississippi Valley: A tremendous number of fires were observed over eastern Arkansas, northeast Louisiana and the Missouri Bootheel. Several of these produced short puffs of light smoke in the late afternoon that merged together mainly over eastern Arkansas and drifted to the east. Texas: A pair of fires in west Texas in southeast Crockett and southern Brown counties were producing lengthy smoke plumes around 200 km that extended to the north-northwest. The plumes were light to moderately dense. Utah: A fire in central Garfield county had a plume of light smoke that extended to the east about 100 km. California: The Indians fire in Monterey county continues to burn generating moderately dense to dense smoke which extends east into the central valley. Remnant smoke has drifted north along the foothills of the Sierra reaching to a little west of Lake Tahoe. A fire in southeast Tulare county had a plume of light to moderate smoke fanning out to the east and west with 50 km of the blaze. The Whiskey fire in Tehama county is producing locally dense smoke which is slowly moving east across the county. An area of thin smoke then also extends to the northeast and covers much of northeast California. Oregon/Idaho/Montana: Thin remnant smoke from the Whiskey fire has spread across much of eastern Oregon, the southern two thirds of Idaho and southwest Montana. Two fires over western Lane county Oregon produced moderately dense to locally dense smoke that moved east into the central part of the county. Canada/Northern Plains/Upper Mississippi Valley: Clouds are obscuring the fires located in northern Saskatchewan. Remnant smoke, mostly light but with areas of moderately dense to dense, can be seen stretching covering virtually all of Manitoba, northern Saskatchewan, the eastern Dakotas, much of Minnesota, northern Iowa and southern Wisconsin. A detached area of thin smoke was also seen over northern Ohio. A fire southeast of Great Slave Lake had a plume of moderately dense smoke extending to the northeast. Ruminski