DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2345Z March 22, 2008
Alabama: A fire along the intersection of Cleburne, Clay and Talladega counties is producing thin to moderate smoke that has been wavering between moving SE and SSE so there is a double S-curve to the appearence as it covers E Clay, S Randolph and Chambers county in AL and Harris county GA. The length is about 140km with an average width of 25km. A fire in southcentral Winston county is producing thin smoke that extends SSE to western Chilton county with a average width of 17km. Mississippi: A fire in NW Chickasaw county produced a puff of moderately dense smoke for about 2hrs which proceeded to move SSE across W MS. The pocket of smoke currently is about 25km wide(E-W) and 77km long(N-S) over S Nouxbee, Kemper and E Lauderdale counties. A fire along the central Kemper/Lauderdale county line is producing a plume of thin to moderate smoke that was moving SSE but has begun to fan out at the southern end moving S to SE covering N Washington and Choctaw counties in AL, and ext E Lauderdale, Clarke and NE Wayne counties in MS. A fire along the far southern portion of the Scott/Newton county line produced a puff of moderate to dense smoke that that is expanding over Lamar, Forrest and SW Jones county. A fire is far SW Wayne county is producing thin to moderate smoke that is fanning out from S to SSW along the Greene and Perry line with most smoke covering E Perry. Smoke extends as far south as the Jackson county line. A fire SE of the River in S Franklin county has been producing moderate to dense smoke throughout the day with a very strong burst of smoke around 1945Z today. The first puff in the lower levels moved south but has turned toward the SW. Currently the smoke extends more than 200km from the source to the northern portions of the Vermillion Bay in LA. The plume is about 85km wide covering many parishes of central LA. A second fire started aroun 2130Z in central Amite county has added to the smoke plume. Arkansas: A line fire (18km long E-W) in SE Polk county along with fires in SC Scott, SE Scott, ext. N Montgomery and ext. SW Yell county have produced moderately dense to very dense smoke that has combined into a very large area of smoke that covers much of SW AR, though it is becoming difficult to see with mid to high level clouds moving in. Still the smoke covers nearly all of Little River, Sevier, Howard, SW and SE Polk, and Montgomery counties. Texas: A fire along NE of the lake along the Walker and Montgomery county line has produced thin to moderate smoke that has moved SW to N Austin county, covering E Washington county to N Waller and S Grimes counties. Arizona: A fire in Maricopa county just NW of the NW tip of Pinal county has is producing a thin plume of smoke that is 13km wide and extends due south within Maricopa county about 50km. Montana: A fire in Teton county near Fairfield is producing a thin puff of smoke that extends E to ENE about 30km to I-15. Gallina