DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z December 7, 2005
Arizona: An intense fire in the Coconino National Forest in southern Coconino County was producing a dense smoke plume which was moving southward into central Gila County. Smoke from a fire along the Apache-Greenlee County border in the Apache-Sitegreaves National Forest was responsible for an area of moderately dense smoke which moved southeastward into west central New Mexico. Several fires over the Coconino National Forest in south central Coconino County and the Prescott National Forest in west central Yavapai County were producing moderately dense southward moving smoke plumes. A very long thin swath of smoke from fire in the Coronado National Forest in Cochise County of southeast AZ was visible late this afternoon moving eastward across southwestern New Mexico and into far northern old Mexico. New Mexico: The fire noted yesterday evening along the far eastern portion of the Lincoln National Forest in northern Otero County of southern NM was still burning and continued to spread a thin to moderately dense smoke plume to the east. Eastern Oklahoma/Arkansas/eastern Texas/Louisiana: A rather large number of fires were detected across the region today with visible smoke plumes noted from nearly 2 dozen of them. Some high cloudiness had overspread the area during the afternoon which may have prevented even more smoke from being analyzed. The fires burning across south central Arkansas were emitting smoke plumes which were moving northward toward the vicinity of Little Rock. A particularly intense batch of fires just to the east of Fort Polk in eastern Vernon County of western Louisiana was responsible for a rather dense batch of smoke that had fanned out as it moved off to the north-northwest. The other smoke plumes analyzed across this region were also moving mainly in a northerly or north-northwesterly direction. Southern Mississippi: A smoke plume from a fire in Jackson County of far southern MS was observed moving off to the southwest across the entire coastal region of southern MS. JS