DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2330Z January 12, 2006
Florida: Two fires near the western Franklin/Liberty border in the panhandle produced moderately dense smoke plumes that extended to the northeast and reached into southwest Leon county. Blazes just to the southeast of Lake Okeechobee produced a thin area of smoke that moved to the northwest across the lake around noon time. Oklahoma: Several large blazes developed across southern Oklahoma this afternoon/evening. Smoke plumes were seen with three of these fires over northwest Stephens, northwest Carter and eastern Carter. The plumes were all moderately dense, narrow and extended to the northeast. The longest of the plumes was from northwest Carter and extended into northern Hughes. The smoke from eastern Carter reached to extreme southwest Pontotoc while the smoke from northwest Stephens had reached south central Mclain by sunset. New Mexico: A fire over southwest Catron county had a plume of thin density extending to the southeast about 40 km nearly reaching the Grant county border. Baja Mexico: A fire about 45 km south of Tecate produced a moderately dense plume of swirling smoke that extended the furthest to the southwest reaching the coast. Ruminski