DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z January 11, 2007
Southeastern and south central U.S.: There continue to be numerous agricultural fires in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, eastern Texas and eastern Oklahoma. A small subset of these fires is producing large enough areas of smoke to be seen in satellite imagery. Light (or occasionally light to moderate) narrow smoke plumes are associated with about 15 fires, ten of which are in Georgia. In general, most of the smoke plumes extend southward but those in Louisiana and Texas extend northward. A fire in extreme western Bibb County, Alabama is producing a light to moderate smoke plume that extends westward. An especially long but still narrow plume of light smoke extends toward the northwest from a fire south of Sabine Lake near the Lousiana-Texas border. California: A fire in Santa Barbara County is producing light smoke that extends toward the southeast. A fire in Madera County is producing an area of light smoke that remains near the fire.