DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1615Z May 1, 2008
Mid Atlantic/Southern New England: An area of haze of unknown composition and unknown origin was detected moving off the Mid Atlantic and Southern New England coasts and across Long Island and southern New England. New Mexico/Texas: A fire in Torrance County, New Mexico, has resulted in a moderately dense though fairly narrow plume extending 100 km to the east. A moderately dense area of haze across northern Texas is believed to be residual smoke from this fire. Florida: Several fires in Florida were producing narrow plumes of smoke this morning that were all moving to the west-northwest. One fire was in the Canaveral National Seashore near Titusville and extended across southern Volusia county. Another was a fire in southern Gilchrist near Tyler. This fire has been burning all night and its plume reached into southern Madison county. Another blaze was in western Hernando county with its plume extending into the Gulf of Mexico. All of the plumes were light to locally moderately dense. Central Plains: An area of moderately thick to dense smoke was seen tracking across much of central and eastern Kansas, central Oklahoma, southeast Nebraska, southern Iowa and northwest Missouri. This area of smoke was associated with the large fire in Torrance county New Mexico which exploded last evening. The area is continuing to lift to the northeast. Turk/Ruminski