DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z March 12, 2008
NOTE...Due to local computer problems the analysis at the following web address locations may not include all of the smoke plumes described in the text narrative below... http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/hms.html http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm We hope to have the updated analysis of fires and smoke available by later tonight. Central and Southern US: Missouri: A moderately dense to dense smoke plume spread east-northeastward from a fire in Phelps County of central Missouri. The smoke plume was headed in the general direction of the southern portion of St. Louis. Kansas: Fires in Gove County of western Kansas and Stanton County of southwestern Kansas were emitting occasional puffs of light to moderately dense smoke which moved in an eastward direction. Oklahoma: Light to locally moderately dense smoke from a fire in Osage County of northeastern Oklahoma moved to the east-northeast and across the border into southeastern Kansas. A light to moderately dense plume from a fire in Woodward County of northwestern Oklahoma moved eastward during the late afternoon. Scattered fires across south central and southeastern Oklahoma produced a number of smoke plumes of thin density which spread in an east-northeast direction with some merging together in the process. The patches of smoke eventually moved over eastern Oklahoma and into northwestern Arkansas. Texas: A number of fires to the west and southwest of the Dallas-Ft. Worth metro area produced several thin smoke plumes. These thin smoke plumes combined to form slightly larger patches of smoke which moved in an east-northeast direction with some very thin smoke appearing to make it into the Dallas-Ft. Worth region just prior to sunset. Over far southern Texas several thin to moderately dense smoke plumes from fires in the counties between Corpus Christi and Brownsville moved in a southerly direction toward Brownsville and the TX-Mexico border. New Mexico: A smoke plume of mainly thin density from a fire in San Miguel County of eastern New Mexico moved off to the east-northeast toward the NM-TX border. Hawaii: Cloudiness interfered with smoke detection from the Kilauea Volcano lava flows to a certain extent. Some possible smoke mixed with the usual volcanic steam/fog (VOG) was evident moving to the west-southwest along the southern coast of the Big Island.