DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0115Z April 17, 2007
Florida: A thin to moderately dense smoke plume from a fire in western Broward County moved to the southeast during the afternoon across the Miami metro area. Georgia/South Carolina: Several fires in eastern and southeastern Georgia were emitting smoke plumes which were blown quite a distance to the east-southeast and off the coast. Some of the thinner smoke plumes from the eastern Georgia fires passed across southern South Carolina as well. One particular very intense fire in Ware County of southeastern Georgia was responsible for a moderately dense to locally dense smoke plume which fanned out as it moved off to the east-southeast. The smoke plume moved across the Jacksonville FL vicinity during the late afternoon. Mississippi: Moderately dense to locally thick smoke was observed moving to the south-southeast from fires in the southern Mississippi Counties of Simpson, Jones, and Perry. The smoke moved into coastal southern Mississippi and southwestern Alabama by late in the afternoon. Arkansas: A fire in the northwestern Arkansas County of Franklin was emitting a moderately dense to locally dense smoke plume which spread generally in a north-northeasterly direction. Oklahoma: Several bursts of relatively thin smoke from a fire in southern Ellis County of western Oklahoma spread quickly to the north. The remnant very thin smoke appeared to make it as far as central Kansas (more than 200 miles from the source). Kansas/Missouri/Nebraska/Iowa: An incredible number of fires were detected mainly in or near the Flint Hills region of eastern Kansas. Smoke plumes from individual fires had merged into a larger mass of mainly thin smoke which moved to the north-northeast and also eventually across portions of southeastern Nebraska, southwestern Iowa, and northwestern Missouri. A couple of separate patches of very thin smoke were also detected moving to the east across central and eastern Iowa. JS