DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0030Z April 9, 2008
Louisiana/Mississippi: A fire in central Rapides parish has produced a large plume of thin to moderate smoke that had been mixed with clouds throughout the day as it moved due N and now NNE. The plume currently extends in a 40km wide plume (SW to NE) from central Winn parish to the Morehouse parish state line with AR. A fire just south of the W Amite/C Franklin county line, MS produced a large plume of thin to moderate smoke that had been mixed with clouds throughout the day as it moved due N across SW MS. The plume currently extends due north from the fire to dense weather clouds north of Issaquena county. The average width is about 25km. A fire in SE Perry county, MS is producing smoke that has increased cloud cover due to increased water nucleation from soot/heat from the fire, so density is not truly known...though the cloud is moving N and NNE across NE Perry, central Wayne into S Clarke county, MS. The average width is about 20km wide. Nebraska/Iowa: Fires along the Missouri River in N Knox county, Burt and Washington counties in NE and SW Woodbury county, IA have recently produced small puffs/plumes of thin smoke that extend due south about 20 to 30km with about 5km widths. North Dakota: A fire along the Ward/McHenry county line (just north of halfway along the boundary) has produced puffs of moderate smoke that has diffused into a larger plume of thin smoke that extends due north into extreme SW Manitoba. Hawaii: Please see Volcanic Ash Advisory under WMO header FVXX21 KNES or at www.ssd.noaa.gov/VAAC for volcanic ash information. Additional to that, a large area of Volcanic fog (VOG) which consists of high amounts of SO2 can be seen heading north under stronger southerly flow across the Big Island from the Kilauea craters of Halema'uma'u and Pu'u'O'o east of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea to the Pacific. Once at the coastal regions the Vog begins to swirl around the north flanks of Mauna Kea into the straits toward Maui. Remnant Vog from prior days west of the island is also moving north to NW and is covering Maui, Lana'i, Molokai with moderate to dense thickness. Thin vog can be seen currently over O'ahu and extending SW to 20N160W and further out. Eventually this thinner area will trek across Kauai and Ni'ihau over the next 12hrs. Gallina