DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z APRIL 2, 2006.
Corrected for eastward movement to the smoke plume in Missouri. Bahamas/Cuba/Florida: A few small fires to the east and southeast of Lake Okeechobee produced a small patch of relatively thin smoke which drifted westward across the lake before dissipating. Fires scattered across the Bahamas were emitting thin to moderately dense smoke plumes which spread westward in the general direction of southern Florida. Numerous fires were detected over much of Cuba although the smoke plumes were generally moving southward or westward and away from southern Florida. Missouri: A fire close to the Pulaski-Phelps County border region of south central Missouri was responsible for a moderately dense area of smoke which moved mostly in an eastward direction during the early afternoon, before clouds moved across the region preventing additional smoke detection. Eastern Kansas/Missouri: Other than the Pulaski-Phelps County border fire described above, very little smoke was noted from the tremendous number of fires detected across eastern Kansas and Missouri due to widespread cloudiness moving across the Central Plains. JS