DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2330Z November 15, 2007

Florida:
A fire in the Kissimmee Prairie Preserve S.P. produced a large puff
of moderately dense smoke around 1845Z today but it was short in
duration. The puff of smoke fanned out from E to SE and rapidly moved
across N Ockeechobee and covered all of St. Lucie county and out to sea.
At last visible image...its areal coverage was 50km N-S by 22km E-W
about 15km offshore of Jensen Beach, FL.
A fire near Baird,FL in SE Polk county is producing a plume of thin to
moderate smoke that extends about 83km SE to Ockeechobee, FL. The plume
is about 17km wide.

Louisiana:
Multiple agricultural fires in the southern coastal parishes along
with fires in the Mississippi River Valley (a few fires in SW AR in
the Red River Valley) produced multiple puffs and plumes of thin smoke
that moved due south throughout the state covering much of the state
(S of Baton Rouge) at some point today including much of the near coast
Gulf of Mexico. Most plume were on average 10-15km wide and extended
nearly 50-100km.

Texas Panhandle:
A fire in SE Castro county TX near Hart produced a puff of smoke around
1815Z that can still be tracked moving quickly NE and is currently over
N Ochiltree county near Perryton, TX.  The thin area of smoke covers
about ½ to ¾ of the county.

New Mexico:
A fire in the far SW portion of Los Alamos county is producing a plume
of thin smoke that is moving SE 32km to NW of Santa Fe. The plume was
about 6km wide.
A fire near Leyba, NM (S of I-25) in SW San Miguel county is producing
a plume of thin smoke that is moving due E 20km to around US-84. The
plume is about 5km wide.

Utah:
A fire NE of Tropic in the Kariparowits Plateau in S central Garfield
county is proucing a plume of thin to moderately dense smoke that
is extending around 100km NE to the Northern portions of the Henry
Mtns. along the Garfield/Wayne county line.

California:
A fire in La Porte in far S Plumas county is proucing thin smoke that
extend NNE to the Lassen county line near Fredonyer Pass. The plume is
about 10km wide.

Gallina

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.