DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2245Z November 5, 2006
Florida: A large fire in northern Wakulla county in the Apalachicola National Forest north of Arran is producing moderately dense smoke that is moving to the west and fanning out. At the onset of the day winds aloft varied with height and so the smoke was moving due W to NW in the mid levels while smoke was moving due SW in the low levels. Since about 2000Z, the fire has not been strong enough to produce smoke into the midlevels of the atmosphere and so the entire plume is moving SW, however the smoke in the midlevels continues to move to the W and NW and is located across SE AL and the FL panhandle W of the Apalachicola River...and the entire area of smoke has taken on an āLā shape about 20km wide along its length and extends from near Daleville in SW Dale county, AL to the apex or bend in the āLā near Wilma in Liberty county then back NE toward the fire itself in Wakulla county. Gallina