DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1430Z May 24, 2007
Mississippi Valley, Great Lakes and extreme Southeast: A large area of thin and moderately dense smoke cover the SE into the Mississippi River valley into the Great Lakes coming from the Bugaboo and Turnaround fires in SE GA. The most dense smoke is currently being emitted from the fires moving due west and is bound by the GA state boarder with AL to the west and FL to the south and US-82 to the north. Moderately dense smoke then continues to fan out to the west and northwest across AL south of US-82 and north of the FL/AL state line into MS where the smoke continues to move due west in the southern portion of the state, but is turning northwest and eventually northward across the northern 1/3rd of the state with coverage amazingly bound by I-55 from Memphis to Jackson and then by US-49 to Hattiesburg,MS. The smoke then thins out a bit across far western TN (bound by the Miss. River and Tenn. River. There is an apparent break in the smoke or too thin to see easily across KY, ext. SW IN and E IL until about Champaign/Urbana when thin smoke can be seen moving north again to the Chicagoland area. The smoke then becomes more dense (to moderate) in a 100km wide swath from Chicago to the entrance of Saginaw Bay, affecting Southern Lake Michigan, Holland, Muskegon, Grand Rapids, Mount Pleasant, Big Rapids, and Midland/Bay City. Gallina