Saturday, November 08, 2008

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



 


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.