DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1545Z SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
Western US (Washington, Oregon, California): Smoke from wildfires burning from southern to northern California and into southwest Oregon are producing thin to moderately dense smoke through parts of central and western California and into the Pacific Ocean and north into parts of Oregon and slowly tracking north into Washington. The wildfires burning in southeast Fresno and north central Tulare counties (Sequoia National Forest) are producing a line of moderately dense smoke stretching from the southern sections and moving into the central sections of the San Joaquin Valley and then moving northwest north of the Bay area and off the California coast. In Oregon the wildfire burning on the Jackson/Klamath county line and one in northeast Douglas county are producing moderately dense smoke that was moving west earlier in the morning but is now moving north across central Oregon and contributing to the overall smoke plume across the western US. A smoke plume also stretches across northern Oregon and west into the Pacific Ocean. The smoke is most likely from the wildfires in Oregon. -Kibler