DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0015Z February 15, 2007
Southern Florida: At least 4 very long smoke plumes of thin density were evident in visible imagery this afternoon extending well to the east from fires located along the Lee/Charlotte County border, Glades County, Okeechobee County, and Palm Beach County. Some of the smoke extended more than 150 miles to the east of the source. Florida panhandle/Southern Alabama/Southern Mississippi: Several long smoke plumes were also observed across the region this afternoon moving southward and out over the Gulf of Mexico. The most significant smoke producing fires over southern Calhoun and Franklin Counties of the Florida panhandle, southern Mobile County of far southwestern Alabama, and southern Perry and southeastern Stone Counties of southern Mississippi were all emitting moderately dense smoke. Texas: Another very long smoke plume of mainly thin density was observed moving southward from a fire located in Bastrop County of south central Texas. Southeastern California: A few relatively short lived fires in Imperial County of southeastern California were producing small puffs of thin smoke which spread quickly in a southward direction into northeastern Baja. JS