DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z MARCH 8, 2006
Mississippi: Numerous fires are burning across the state with the most significant in the counties of Oktibbeha and Choctaw. The fires in these counties are emitting thick areas of smoke 50-60 km long moving south southwest into Winston and Neshoba counties. A large group of fires in the counties of Hancock and Pearl River are producing plume of moderately dense smoke moving south towards the Gulf of Mexico. A majority of these fires are agricultural. Alabama: Fires are burning from the northern to the southern edge of the state. The largest of these fires are burning in the counties of Mobile and Baldwin with each producing narrow plumes of dense smoke moving south into the Gulf of Mexico. The smoke extends 75-90 km. Minor smoke emitting fires are burning in the counties of Washington, Butler, Monroe, Marengo, Sumter, Bullock, Pike, Clay, Coosa, Marshall and Talapossa. A majority of the smoke from these fires are moving south across the state. Georgia/South Carolina: A few large smoke producing fires burning in the counties of Newberry, Dorchester, Charleston, and Colleton counties are emitting areas of moderately dense smoke 70-100 km long. In Dorchester, Charleston and Colleton counties the smoke is moving into the Atlantic, but the fire in Newberry, smoke is moving across the counties of Aiken and Lexington. In Georgia a number of large fire emitting dense plumes of smoke are along the South Carolina border in the counties of Effingham and Bullock. Plumes of smoke extend 50-75 km moving southeast. The largest fire is burning in the county of Liberty with smoke extending southeast 100-110 km long. Minor smoke producing fires are burning in the counties of Troup, Muscogee, Chattahoochee, Bartow, Madison and Brooks with the smoke mostly heading south. A majority of these fires are agricultural. Florida: Their is a large cluster of fires burning across the panhandle of Florida. In the counties of Leon, Jefferson, Calhoun, Walton, and Dixie large dense smoke producing fires extend into the Gulf of Mexico (60-80 km). J Kibler