DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0115Z November 05, 2005
SOUTHEAST U.S. : GOES satellite imagery through 0115Z showed scattered small plumes of thin smoke from agricultural burns over the Southeast. A Fire producing a more extensive plume was observed in Wilkes County in northeastern Georgia. The plume extended to the northeast over northern South Carolina. Another fire in Columbia County in northern Florida caused a large plume that drifted to the northwest over Hamilton County. SOUTHWEST U.S. : Thin smoke plumes were also observed over Arizona and New Mexico. A fire near the border of San Juan and Mckinley County in New Mexico produced a larger plume that extended eastward. NORTHERN MEXICO : High winds blew dust from an area in Chihuahua(110 km southwest of El Paso) in northern Mexico to the counties of El Paso and Hudspeth in western Texas. Brown