DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0245Z February 14, 2006
Florida: A fire in west Dixie county is producing an area of thick smoke moving southeast into Levy county and the Gulf of Mexico. Another fire in east Calhoun county is emitting a narrow plume of moderately dense smoke. The smoke from this fire extends 90-100 km southeast into Liberty and Franklin counties. Their are other fires burning across the state, but they are only producing thin density smoke. Alabama: A fire burning in east Escambia county is emitting a narrow plume of moderately dense smoke. The smoke extends 110-120 km southeast into the counties of Santa Rosa, Okaloosa in Alabama and Covington in Florida. Another fire burning in Baldwin county is emitting moderate dense smoke moving southeast into Escambia and Santa Rosa counties. A fire in Clarke county is producing an area of moderate dense smoke moving east southeast into Monroe and Conecuh counties. In the northern part of the state, a fire in east Winston county is emitting a 70-80 km plume of thin smoke moving east into Cullman, Morgan, Marshall and Blount counties. Mississippi: A large fire in southeast Jones county is producing a 80-90 km plume of thick smoke moving east southeast into Greene, Wayne and Perry counties in Mississippi and Mobile and Washington counties in Alabama. Their are smaller fires burning across the state in the counties of Hancock, Stone and George. These fire are emitting thin smoke plumes. North Carolina/South Carolina: A fire in east Hyde county is emitting a moderate plume of smoke moving east into the Atlantic. The fire shows up extremely well in GOES IR Channel 2 imagery. Smaller fires producing thin smoke are in the counties of Richmond and New Hanover in North Carolina and Berkeley county in South Carolina. Baja, California: Their are multiple fires burning near the California border and due south. Some of these fires are producing areas of moderately dense smoke moving west towards the Pacific Ocean. Due to cloud cover across this region the full extent of the smoke cannot be seen in GOES 10 imagery.