DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0045Z March 14, 2007
Southeast: While there were a very large number of fires detected across Georgia, the Florida Panhandle, eastern Kentucky and Alabama, extensive cloud cover developed and has precluded detection of smoke plumes over most of this area. One fire in eastern Franklin county Florida produced a narrow plume of thin smoke that extended north into western Wakulla county. South Carolina: A fire along the Chester/Union border produced a plume of light to moderate density smoke that spread east across most of Chester county. Three blazes in Georgetown and Berkeley counties produced smoke plumes that initially moved off the coast but then spread inland to the west as the sea breeze kicked in. Kansas: A fire in northern Sumner county produced a quick burst of smoke with a narrow plume this evening that extended north into Sedgwick county. New Mexico: A fire in far eastern San Miguel county produced a plume of smoke that fanned out to the north across eastern Harding county late this morning and early afternoon. South Dakota: A smoke plume was seen in the Black Hills in western Pennington county early in the afternoon that extended north into southeast Lawrence. Arizona: A fire in central Yavapai south of Prescott in the Prescott National Forest produced a plume of thin to moderate density smoke that fanned out to the east and covered much of southeast Yavapia by sunset. Nevada: A fire broke out late in the day in central Clark county north of Las Vegas with a smoke plume that extended to the north less than 25 km. Northern California: Numerous small blazes in southern Butte and eastern Glenn counties produced small puffs of smoke. The smoke from the fires in Butte drifted to the northeast while the smoke in Glenn drifted to the southwest. Ruminski