DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0115Z March 13, 2007
Southwest Light smoke extended 60 nmi to the southwest of a fire in Gila County Arizona. The Orange County fire was still producing a diffuse area of generally light smoke across extreme southwest San Bernadino County, western Riverside County and northwest San Diego County. Southeast A very narrow smoke plume extended 80 nmi to the east of a fire in McCormick County Georgia. Ag fires across southern Georgia, Alabama and Leon County Florida have contributed to an area of haze that extended from Leon County across southern Georgia through central Alabama. A fire in Macon County North Carolina generated moderate to heavy smoke at times this afternoon. A generally light smoke plume extended 110 nmi to the southeast of the fire into northwest South Carolina at sundown. Tennessee Light to moderate smoke stretched for 30 nmi to the east of a fire in Van Buren County. Missouri Two fires—one in Taney County and the other in Reynolds County—produced smoke plumes that extended 60 nmi to the northeast. The Reynolds County plume had reached the Illinois border by sundown.