DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0145Z May 02, 2007

Georgia/Florida:
The wildfire in Atkinson county in southern Georgia continues to generate
a huge very dense smoke plume. The winds have shifted and the plume is
now moving to the north-northeast along with the smoke from the Ware
county fires. Dense smoke covers much of southeast Georgia and extends
to the South Carolina border over Screven county. Light to moderate
smoke from these fires covers much of the eastern Gulf of Mexico east of
about 85W. Smoke from previous days that had drifted out over the western
Atlantic was now drifting back over the east coast of Florida from near
Lake Okeechobee to Cape Canaveral. Additionally, fires over northeast
Lake county and along the Volusia/Flagler border were producing locally
dense smoke in this area. A blaze in central Dade county had produced
a narrow plume of smoke that was moving to the west.

Mississippi:
A fire along the Amite/Franklin county border in southwest Mississippi
produced a long narrow plume of moderate to dense smoke that lifted
north along the Mississippi river almost reaching the Arkansas state
line by sunset.

Northern Plains:
Numerous plumes of mainly light smoke were seen over North Dakota and
northwest Minnesota. The plumes over Minnesota were drifting to the south
while those over North Dakota were moving to the west and northwest. One
fire over southern Sheridan county in northeast Montana produced a plume
of moderately dense smoke that has moved to the northwest into Canada.

Northern Idaho/western Montana:
Fires in Shoshone and Latah counties in Idaho and Sanders county in
Montana had mainly light plumes of smoke that were moving mainly to
the east.

Arizona:
A fire that developed in the late afternoon in central Yuma county
has a moderately dense smoke plume that extends to the north reaching
into LaPaz.

Mexico:
A fire in northwest Chihuahua state in the Sierra Madre Occidental range
has a smoke plume that extended nearly 100 km to the northeast and was
about 275 km to the south of the New Mexico border.

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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.