DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z January 30, 2007
Mid Atlantic/Southeast/Lower Mississippi Valley: Multiple fires are burning across the above region with some producing light to moderate smoke. The fires look to be mostly controlled/agricultural burns. North Carolina: A fire in Onslow county is emitting a 40-50 km long plume of light smoke eastward into the Atlantic. South Carolina: A fire in Richland county is producing a light narrow plume of smoke moving east into Lee, Sumter and Kershaw county. The smoke extends 40-50 km downstream. Another small fire is burning in Colleton county with smoke moving east into Beaufort. Georgia: A moderate plume of smoke from a fire in Twiggs county is moving east NE into Wilkerson, Baldwin, Jones, Hancock and Washington counties. The smoke extends 60-70 km from the source. A fire in McDuffie county is emitting a light plume of smoke into Columbia, Richmond counties and nearing the South Carolina border. Florida: A fire in Okaloosa county is producing a light plume of smoke moving south into the Gulf of Mexico. California: Numerous fires are burning in northern California in the counties of Glenn, Butte, Colusa, Sutter and Yuba. A fire in Sutter county is emitting a plume of light smoke 40-50 km long into the counties of Yolo and Sacramento. Oregon: Multiple fires along the western coast of Oregon in the counties of Lane, Douglas and Lincoln are producing erratic smoke plumes. A fire on the border of Douglas and Lane counties is producing a light plume of smoke moving northwest. Earlier in the day the smoke was moving southwest. In Lincoln county a fire producing light smoke is moving southeast, but earlier in the day smoke was moving in many different directions. In southwest Oregon, a fire in Jackson county is emitting light smoke which is moving into Josephine and Del Norte counties. J Kibler