DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0045Z April 19, 2007
Southeast: Intense fire in Broward County Florida resulted in a plume that extended 125 nmi to the east while a smaller fire in Collier County produced a narrow plume that stretched 25 nmi to the east. Clouds obscured the Ware County Georgia fire much of the day, but smoke was noted over the Atlantic off the Georgia coast in the late afternoon. Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa: Generally light smoke plumes were moving towards the west from fires over Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. Exceptional fires in this area included one in Morrison County Minnesota which produced moderately dense smoke that reached the North Dakota border and one in Burnett County Wisconsin which resulted in a light smoke plume that extended 75 nmi to the west southwest. Southern Manitoba: Light to isolated moderately dense smoke reached Lake Manitoba from fires near the US border. Central Plains: A large area of light smoke, the combination of numerous controlled burns in Kansas as well as residual smoke from yesterday's fires in the Northern Plains, stretched from south central Nebraska across central and southeast Kansas to southwest Missouri. Southwest: A thin plume of light smoke reached 70 nmi to the northeast of a blaze in Navajo County Arizona. Dust originating in eastern Coconino County and central Navajo County extended northeast across southeast Utah, northwest New Mexico and southwest Colorado. Another area of dust extended from its source in south central Bernardino County California across western Riverside and Imperial counties into the Arizona counties of La Paz, Yuma, Maricopa, and Yavapai.