DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z MARCH 15, 2006
Texas/Oklahoma/Kansas: Significant fires continue to burn over the Texas Panhandle in the vicinity of the Donley and Collingsworth border and also over northeastern Roberts county. The composite moderately dense smoke plume was extending over 150 miles north to the southern portions of the Kansas counties of Meade and Clark. A significant fire has developed over southwestern Pittsburg county just southwest of McAlester, Oklahoma. A dense smoke plume was extending 45 miles southwest into northeastern Johnston county. The plume was nearly 20 miles wide at its southwestern extent. A fire over extreme southwest Delta county near Antioch, Texas had a moderately dense smoke plume extending 30-40 miles southwest into portions of northeast Kaufman county. Eastern Texas east to Southern Georgia, widespread fire activity has mostly died off late this evening. At sunset, mostly thin and narrow smoke plumes were generally seen drifting south. Hanna