DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2300Z December 12, 2006
Widespread fire activity was noted over most of the Southeast this afternoon and evening but due to widespread cloud cover from an approaching weather system along with an outage in satellite imagery this afternoon has negated most smoke analysis throughout the entire region. Coastal Texas and Louisiana: Several smoke producing fires were noted along the Gulf Coasts of Texas and Louisiana this evening. The most prominent smoke plume was associated with a fire near Sabine Pass along the Texas and Louisiana border. At sunset the moderately dense smoke plume was extending about 40 miles southeast into the open Gulf of Mexico. Further to the southwest several smoke producing fires were analyzed over Refugio county. The smoke plumes associated with these fires were also drifting southeast into the Gulf of Mexico. The most notable of these fires was located near Old Saint Marys and had a moderately dense smoke plume that extended southeast over 75 miles. Southwest Kansas: Several fires were noted over eastern Haskell county and southwest Gray county. Each of these fires exhibited thin smoke plumes that were drifing east at sunset. Hanna