DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0150Z April 22, 2007

Southeast and Gulf of Mexico:
The huge fire in southern Ware County in southern Georgia continues to
produce a large area of very dense smoke that extended to the southwest
over the Florida Panhandle. The smoke thinned as it moved along the Gulf
Coast to southern Louisiana and the NW Gulf of Mexico.

Numerous fires in SE Mexico/Yucatan Peninsula produced a large area of
light and moderate smoke over the western Gulf of Mexico as far north
as southeastern Texas.

North Carolina:
A cluster of fires in Hoke and Cumberland Counties caused a plume of
light smoke that drifted to the south.

Alabama/ Mississippi:
Plumes of light and moderate smoke extended to the west and northwest
from fires in southern Bibb county in Alabama and Jones/Lawrence County
in southern Mississippi.

Lower Mississippi Valley:
Narrow plumes of light and moderate smoke streaked to the NW from fires
in the western Louisiana, northeast Texas, northeast Oklahoma and south
central Missouri.

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Unless otherwise indicated:

Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.

Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.

A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.

Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.