DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2315Z NOVEMBER 08, 2008
Louisiana: A fire in extreme southwest Louisiana south of Sabine Lake had a plume of light to moderately dense smoke extending to the east and southeast. The smoke crossed over Calcasieu Lake and along the Louisiana coast south of Grand Lake and White Lake to Marsh Island. The smoke also extended to the southeast nearly 200 km into the Gulf of Mexico by sunset. Additional plumes were seen from fires in Vermillion, Lafayette, Assumption and St Charles parishes. These plumes were all short and mostly of thin density. A narrow plume of thin smoke was also seen in northern Bossier parish extending to the southeast. Arkansas: Several small puffs of smoke were seen over eastern Arkansas amongst a large number of agricultural fires. The smoke was short lived and qickly moved to the east. Oklahoma: Smoke plumes were seen with fires over southeast Pushmataha and northern Hughes counties in eastern Oklahoma. These plumes were narrow and light to moderately dense and moving 25-75 km to the southeast. Texas: Several fires in the Panhandle in Castro county had light smoke plumes that lifted to the north into Randall county. A fire in Sherman county had a plume of light smoke that drifted to the northeast. A couple of fires in Jefferson county in east Texas had light to moderately dense plumes that extended to the southeast into the Gulf of Mexico. A fire in the Houston metro area had a plume of thick smoke that extended into Galveston Bay. Arizona: A plume of moderately dense to dense smoke was seen over far western Coconino county drifting to the north into northeast Mohave county. A short plume of thin smoke was over south central Coconino and drifting to the east. A narrow plume of light to moderately dense smoke was seen over southern Navajo county. The fire was just southwest of Show Low and the plume extended to the northeast into central Apache. Ruminski