DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z MARCH 17, 2006
North Carolina: Moderately dense smoke from a fire located near the Chatham-Wake-Harnett County border spread northeastward across Wake County and portions of the Raleigh-Durham metro area. Tenessee/Kentucky: A rather significant fire over eastern Sullivan County of far northeastern Tennessee produced a locally dense smoke plume which spread northeastward into southwestern Virginia. A bit farther to the south over Monroe County of far southeastern Tennessee, another fire was emitting a northeastward moving smoke plume. A large fire along the Trigg-Steward County border near the TN/KY border was responsible for a locally dense area of smoke which moved northeastward into west central Kentucky. Alabama/Georgia: Several fires scattered across northeastern Alabama and northern and central Georgia were emitting moderately dense smoke plumes which were also spreading off to the northeast. Arkansas: The most significant smoke producing fires in the US this afternoon were scattered across Arkansas. The biggest fire over western Montgomery of western Arkansas was producing a large and locally dense batch of smoke which had moved east-southeastward and combined with other areas of smoke to form a swath of smoke that covered a portion of south central Arkansas. Texas: Moderately dense smoke was fanning out to the south from a fire located over southwestern Delta County of northeastsern Texas. JS