DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2145Z January 7, 2006
S Florida: Multiple fires in the swamps South of Lake Okeechobee mostly located in Western Palm Beach county are producing a large area of thin to moderately dense smoke that is moving SE over Broward and Miami-Dade counties into the ocean toward Bimini island in the Bahamas. The plume extends about 214km from the Southern tip of Lake Okeechobee to S of Bimini island and is about 90km wide. Florida Panhandle: A fire just NW of near Sumatra at the Liberty/Franklin/Gulf county line is producing moderately dense smoke that extends 99km SSE into the southern portion of Apalachee Bay and is about 24km wide. A fire just E of Hosford near the Gadsen/Liberty county line is producing intermittent puffs of moderately dense smoke that extend E 50km to the Madison/Suwanee county line and is about 14km wide. A fire near Holley in S Santa Rosa county is producing a fan of moderate to dense smoke that extends 52km NE to where I-10 crosses the Walton/Okaloosa county line and also extends 45km to the ESE over W Choctawhatcee Bay. Alabama: A fire near Repton along the Conecuh/Monroe county line is producing thin to moderately dense smoke that extends 47km NE into SW Bulter county and is about 22km wide. Georgia: A fire within Fort Stuart along the Liberty/Bryan county line just east of SR-119 is producing moderately dense smoke that extends east 82km or about 20km offshore and is about 20km wide. This text product was issued earlier than normal due to most of the visible smoke was relegated to the Eastern US, where visible imagery is becoming unavailable due to local sunset. This product may be updated later tonight if smoke from fires in Central and Western North America become detectable or dust/sand plumes are visible too. Gallina