DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0045Z NOVEMBER 06, 2008

Kentucky/Ohio/West Virginia:
Fires scattered primarily across eastern Kentucky, southern Ohio, and
southwestern West Virginia were emitting mainly thin to locally moderately
dense smoke plumes which moved in a west-southwesterly direction.

Middle and Lower Mississippi Valley:
A massive number of what are believed to be mainly agricultural fires
were analyzed again over eastern Arkansas, northwestern Mississippi, and
southeastern Missouri. These fires produce thin to locally moderately
dense smoke plumes which spread to the north and combined into larger
patches of smoke over eastern Arkansas and southeastern Missouri.

Alabama/northwestern Florida/Mississippi:
Numerous fires were scattered across the Southeastern US with visible
smoke plumes seen in satellite imagery from more than 40 of these
fires. The clockwise flow around high pressure centered over the Southeast
was steering the smoke plumes over Alabama and the Florida Panhandle to
the south while plumes over Mississippi were being blown to the north. The
most noteworthy smoke plume in this region was a moderately dense to
dense plume which moved southward to nearly 100 miles offshore over the
Gulf of Mexico from a fire in Franklin County in the Florida Panhandle.

Arizona:
At least 5 smoke producing fires were visible in southern Coconino and
northern Gila counties of central Arizona. The thin to locally moderately
dense plumes moved in a southeasterly direction during the day.

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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.