Friday, November 30, 2007

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2345Z November 30, 2007

Georgia/Florida Panhandle/southern Alabama/southern Mississippi/southern
Louisiana:
Numerous fires across the south were producing mainly narrow plumes of
light smoke that were generally drifting to the south. Some of the larger
plumes that had moderately dense smoke associated with them were seen over
the Florida Panhandle in western Wakulla and southern Liberty counties
and in Vernon Parish in Louisiana. Smoke plumes were just beginning to
form with fires in Vernon Parish of west central Louisiana and Liberty
County in the central Florida panhandle.

Southern Virginia:
A cluster of fires was detected over south central Virgina. Plumes of
light smoke were seen from fires in southern Halifax, Prince Edward,
Brunswick and Nottaway counties, The plumes were drifting to the east
and northeast.

Kentucky:
A fire along the western Whitley/Laurel county border in southeast
Tennessee had a plume of light to moderately dense smoke that was moving
to the east.

California/Oregon:
A fire in south central Mariposa county had a narrow plume of light
to moderately dense smoke that extended north into central Tuolumne
county. Fires in central Calaveras and south central El Dorado counties
had light to moderately dense narrow plumes that merged and extended
north to the Placer county border near sunset. A large number of fires
in Butte, Glenn, Colusa and Sutter counties were producing mainly small
plumes of light smoke that merged together and were drifting to the
south into Yolo county.

A fire in southwest Klamath county in Oregon was producing a plume of
light smoke that was drifting to the east.

Ruminski


 


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.