DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0000Z March 6, 2007
Very active smoke day across much of the Southern Plains and Southeastern states...for graphic of all smoke plumes today...please see http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm for GIS or http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/hms.html for larger scale Hazard Mapping System graphic. Now onto significant large fires: South Carolina: Nearly all of South Carolina has been covered in smoke at least at one point today, except for the the western uplands north of Greenville- Spartansburg. The largest smoke plume is from a fire near Cross Keys along the Union/Laurens county line. This plume has expanded in a fan shape form ENE to SSE and extends just SE of Columbia and past Camden and Lancaster, SC. The low level smoke is moving more easterly while stronger puffs have sent moderate smoke to the mid levels and is moving SE quickly. A fire near Noah in Jefferson county, GA has produced an area of smoke that is currently over SC as far east as western Calhoun county and is about 22km by 55km. Similar thin smoke from a fire near Snelling in Barnwell county has moved east centered over Lake Marion near Vance and is about 44km by 44km. An abundance of agricultural or prescribed burns have occured in the coastal counties of far Southern SC of Jasper,Beaufort, W Charleston and Colleton counties. These fires produced a very large area of thin smoke that has drifted eastward over Charleston to Hilton Head Island into the coastal zones as far as 175km SE of the coast. Georgia: A fire near Rogers in Jenkins county has produced thin smoke that has moved east to the SC line near Garnett/Robertville area. This plume is about 13km wide. A fire along the Chattahoochee river near Jamestown has produced thin smoke that has moved SE into Terrell county and is about 14km wide. A fire near Jefferson in Camden county and a fire near Forestview area producing a line of thin smoke together that extends off shore about 75km. The plume is no wider than 10km and extends nearly due east. An abundance of agricultural and prescribed burns in and around the Flint River valley from Blainbridge to Albany have produced a very large area of thin smoke that covers nearly all of Swern GA (west of I-75, south of US-280) and into the Eastern panhandle of FL (east of Tallahassee). Florida: A fire near Newport in Wakulla county produced thin smoke that has moved into the Gulf of Mexico as far as 60km from Apalachee Bay to 79km from Suwannee/Hog River area. A fire near Orange but across the river in SE Calhoun coutny has recently increased density of smoke from thin to moderate/dense. The smoke now extends due south to the coast around Eastpoint. A fire near Palm Vally in St. Johns county produced a thin area of smoke that is now completely offshore and is 51 km long,N to S, and 28km wide and is about 75km offshore. A fire a the northern most portion of the Indian Lagoon (N of Scottsmoor) had a short burst of moderate/dense smoke that has begun to fanout from SSW to SE...with the most dense smoke travelling down the intercoastal waterway...and along Cape Canaveral. A fire near Brookside in Indian River county produced a burst of moderate to heavy smoke that similar to the last fire, has begun to deform into a longer line from E to W...that covers all of Lk Okeechobee out to sea 35km E of Waveland. Alabama: Multiple fire in Mobile, Baldwin and S Washington counties are producing plumes of thin smoke that nearly cover all the 3 county area and portions of the Gulf of Mexico 130km south of Gulf Shores. A fire near Roselle in Clay county is producing thin to moderate smoke that extends SE 114km to Macon county. The plume is about 25km wide. Mississippi: A fire near Gulfport along the coast in Harrison county is producing a plume of thin smoke that extends 170km to the tip of the Mississippi River Delta and is about 19km wide. A fire near Blueberry Hill in Lincoln county is producing moderately dense smoke that extends to the MS/LA boarder due south. The plume is about 13km wide. A fire near Meadville in Franklin coutny is producing moderately dense smoke that extends due south 50km to the MS/LA boarder. The plume is about 13km wide. Louisiana: A fire near Kisatchie in Natchitoches parish is producing thin smoke that is fanning out SSW to SSE and extends 50km south into Vernon parish. A fire near Reids in Allen parish and fire near Kipling in Beauregard parish are producing similar consistency and location smoke plumes. Both are 50km long moving SE and are 12km wide. This has lead to the two areas mixing slightly and the smoke nearly covers all of Allen parish. Two small fires east of Calcasieu Lake in Cameron Parish are producing very thin smoke that has drifted offshore into the Gulf of Mexico. and is melding with very thin smoke that is moving SE from a fire in SE TX near La Belle in Jefferson county. This has covered most of the coastal offshore Gulf in thin smoke of Jefferson county and Cameron Parish. Texas: Quite a few fires in Goliad, Victoria, Calhoun, Jackson are producing moderately dense smoke puffs that are expanding in nearly all directions as winds vary greatly in direction with height. This has covered nearly all of Goliad, SW Victoria, Calhoun and E Jackson counties. Clouds obscur the are area SW...but additional smoke plume with similar characteristics can be seen in Kenedy and Brooks county as well...covering both of those counties with moderate smoke as well. A fire near the eastern end of Matagorda Bay near Sargent in Matagorda county is producing a very strange looking plume that no more than 10km wide but low level smoke is moving offshore 14km and rotating from S to SSW...while low to midlevel smoke has moved N 54km to the Brazoria/Matagorda/Fort Bend county line and is also rotating in time, but toward the NNE...making the entire plume look like a minute hand. A fire near Bradford in Anderson county is producing a moderately dense smoke plume that is moving N to NE and extends to the northern portions of Lake Palestine. The plume is no wider than 24km. Oklahoma: There are quite a few large/dense smoke plumes...which is most likely due to the strengthening of Swly very dry winds into the area. Smoke from a fire near Baum in Carter county extends NE 77km to Non in Hughes county and is about 23km wide. Smoke from a fire near Spring Hill in SE Cleveland county extends 85km NE to near Okemah in Okfuskee county and is about 22km wide. Smoke from a fire near Wasseta in Bryan county extends 70km NE to near Wadena in Pushmataha county and is about 20km wide. Smoke from a fire near Stringtown in Atoka county extends 50km NE to near Arch and Bond in Pittsburg county and is about 10km wide. Smoke from a fire near Adel in Pushmataha county extends 66km NE to near Red Oak in Latimer county and is about 16km wide. Arkansas: A fire near Ritz in Scott county is producing moderately dense smoke that is moving NE to near Green Ridge in Scott county. This is about 30km long and the plume is about 30km wide. Missouri: A fire near Akers in Shannon county is producing moderate to dense smoke that extends to the ESE to near Upalika in Wayne county. The plume is about 23km wide. A fire near Upalika in Wayne county is producing moderately dense smoek that extends 100km SE into the Bootheel of MO. The plume is about 17km wide. A fire near Brunot in N Wayne county near the Madison county line is producing thin smoke that extends ESE 34km into Bollinger county. The plume is about 9km wide. A fire near Marcoot in Reynolds coutny extends ESE 42km into Bulter county and is about 6km wide. Gallina