DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z May 30, 2007

Southeastern US to the Ohio Valley/Great Lakes region:
Morning visible imagery indicates moderately dense to locally dense
smoke moving to the west-northwest across southern Georgia and into
southeastern and east-central Alabama. This smoke is being emitted by
the ongoing large fires in southeastern Georgia. The smoke then likely
becomes thinner in density as it spreads to the northwest and to the
north across Alabama and Tennessee, through the Ohio Valley and portions
of the Midwest to the Great Lakes region including Michigan(both lower
and upper), Wisconsin, and portions of Lake Erie, Lake Michigan, Lake
Huron, and Lake Superior. Clouds were beginning to obscure part of this
large area so additional details on smoke extent and density could not
be determined. Farther to the southeast, a swath of haze also appears
in visible imagery stretching from West Virginia southeastward across
Virginia and the Carolinas to off the Southeast coast. It is possible
but cannot absolutely be determined that there is some leftover smoke
from the Georgia fires contained within this other region of haze. Over
southern Florida, a significant smoke plume of moderate to thick density
was observed moving to the west from a growing fire close to the northern
and western shores of Lake Okeechobee. The smoke plume was moving in
the general direction of Charlotte Harbor.

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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.