DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 01000Z MARCH 26, 2006
SAND/DUST: Nevada: A moderately dense sand storm can be seen across the Fallon Naval Range, Humboldt Salt Marsh and Carson sink of Churchill county. E of US-95. Sand is being suspended from strong westerly winds behind a cold front with very impressive thunderstorms along it. Sand extends to the cold front which is crossing into Lander County to SR-305 NW of Mt. Callahan. SMOKE: South Carolina: A fire near Mount Beulah in SE Aiken county has produced an area of smoke that is no longer attached to the fire. Currently, the area of moderately dense smoke is covering all of W Charleston county and its offshore waters. Georgia: A fire near Pleasant Ridge or White Plains in Calhoun county has produced an area of smoke that is no longer attached to the source fire. Currently, the area of smoke is no longer in Alabama, but Georgia and is 100km long from Troup to Taylor county and 36km wide from Harris to Muscogee county. Alabama: A fire near Seaboard in S Washington county is producing thin smoke that extends SE 77km to the AL/FL boarder in central Baldwin county, AL and is 22km wide. A fire near Walley in SW Washington county is producing thin to moderate smoke that extends SE 73km to W Baldwin county, AL and is aobut 13 km wide. Mississippi: A fire near Pine Grove in Benton county has produced an area of smoke that is mixed in with the field of cumulus and is no longer attached to the source fire. Currently, the area of moderately dense smoke is in a 15km wide line that extends SW to NE from Pontotoc to Union county. The area is moving SE. A fire near Tuscan in Choctaw county is producing thin smoke that extends SE 69km into Kemper county and is 10km wide. A fire near Harmon in SE Lamar county is producing moderately dense smoke that extends SE 70km to the Gulf Coast along the Jackson/Harrison county line and is 25km wide. A fire near Baxterville in SW Lamar county is producing moderately dense smoke that extends SE 125Km to the northern tip of the Chandeleur islands and is 15km wide. A fire near Kiln in Hancock county is producing moderately dense smoke that extends SSE to Isle Au Pitre and is 11km wide. Louisiana: A fire near Suffolk, MS in Franklin county has produced an area of smoke that has moved into LA and covers most of S Tangipahoa and E Livingston parishes, as well as, W Lake Pontchartrain. The area is about 114km long and 37km wide moving SE. A fire in N Grant parish near Zion is producing moderate smoke that extends S 104km to N Evangeline parish and is about 25km wide. Arkansas: A fire near Saddle in Fulton county is producing thin smoke that extends SSE 47km to Sharp county and is about 13km wide. A large fire near Broomfield county has produced a plume of moderately dense smoke that extends SE 158km into Jefferson county with low level smoke moving due E into NW Conway county. A new explosion of dense to convectively dense smoke extends 36km SE into W Conway county. Kansas Much of the eastern 1/4 of KS (S of the Kansas R. and E of the Flint Hills) has multiple agricultural fires that are producing thin low level smoke. Large individual plumes of moderate density are identafiable within a larger area of thin smoke but are too numerous to describe here. Oklahoma: Similar to KS, numerous agricultural fires are burning across most of state most likely producing similar thin smoke that is observed in KS. However, upper level cirrus has moved in over most of OK making detection of the thin smoke difficult. Smoke is moving SW to S across the state. A fire near Pinhook Corner in Sequoyah county is producing moderate smoke that is moving S across I-40. Texas: A fire near St. Charles Bay near the Aransas N.W.R. is producing dense smoke that is stuck in a deformation zone that is pulling smoke both W and E. The plume is 117km wide E-W (from Bee/San Patricio/Refugio county line to 10km S of the Cavallo Pass) and 43km N-S. Three fires near Winter Hill in C Nacogdoches, Alazan in SW Nacogdoches, and near Granville in Angelina county are producing an area of moderately dense smoke that covers all of W Angelina and E Trinity county. Arizona: A fire near Portal in the Coronado Nat'l Forest in Cochise county is producing a plume of thin smoke that extends ENE 23km just across the NM boarder. The plume is about 11km wide. A fire near Pierda in the Painted Rock Mtns. in Maricopa county is producing a plume of thin smoke that extends NE 39km to near Buckeye and is aobut 14km wide. Gallina