DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z February 6, 2006
Hawaii: A fire located near Crater Village in western Maui was emitting a moderately dense smoke plume which had spread westward across the northern portion of Lana'i. Florida: A fire over western Okaloosa County in the western Florida panhandle which has flared up for the past couple of days was again producing locally dense smoke which had moved southeastward paralleling the coast and then across portions of Gulf and Franklin Counties. Southern Texas/Mexico: A narrow band of smoke from a fire just over the border of far southern TX-Mexico had moved northward across the border just west of Brownsville, TX during the late afternoon. SW Kansas/W Oklahoma/NW Texas: Gusty northwesterly winds fanned a fire burning in Morton County of far southern Kansas producing a rapidly moving smoke plume which spread southeastward across the western Oklahoma panhandle into the northwestern Texas panhandle. JS