DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0045Z May 15, 2007
Southeast/Gulf of Mexico/Central Plains/Tennessee Valley: Smoke from the Georgia and Florida fires has resulted in large area of dense smoke over the eastern half of the Gulf of Mexico and the Florida Panhandle with light residual smoke from the western half of the Gulf of Mexico northward across the southern Plains and into the central Plains and from Alabama northward into the Tennessee Valley. Within the area of light smoke was a small area of moderately dense smoke moving north from a fire in southern Natchitoches County in Louisiana. Arizona: Moderately dense smoke extended 70 nmi northeast of a fire in Gila County while moderately dense smoke stretched from southwest to northeast of a blaze in Santa Cruz County along the border with Mexico. California: A narrow smoke plume extended 60 nmi to the northwest of a fire in Modoc County. Quebec: Moderately dense smoke was moving northeast from a fire in southern Quebec before weather clouds overspread the area.