DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z January 3, 2006
Ohio Valley/Tennessee Valley/Southeast/Lower Mississippi Valley: The area of leftover blowing dust/sand and smoke which was visible earlier this morning across this region was no longer discernible in satellite imagery. Texas/Oklahoma: The coverage and intensity of fires and smoke detected across Texas and Oklahoma was certainly less than on Sunday. However, there still were a lot of fires detected with smoke plumes observed with almost a dozen or so. A few southeastward moving smoke plumes were noted during the day from fires in western and central Texas located over Sterling, Irion, Reagan, Eastland, and Erath Counties. The fires in Erath County were producing the largest smoke plume which extended nearly 150 miles to the southeast. Across central and southeastern Oklahoma, southeastward moving smoke plumes were detected from fires in Pittsburg, Coal, Murray, Lincoln, and Creek Counties. Similar to the Erath TX fire, the largest smoke plume from the Oklahoma fires stretched nearly 150 miles to the southeast. This plume originated with the fires over Pittsburg County. Florida: Numerous fires across Palm Beach County to the south and southeast of Lake Okeechobee , which were believed to primarily be brief agricultural burns, were responsible for small smoke plumes that had spread north-northeastward across Lake Okeechobee and Martin County before dissipating. JS