DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0145Z March 19, 2007
Alabama/Georgia/Florida: Numerous agricultural fires were analyzed over the region this evening with the highest concentration of smoke producing fires over southwestern Georgia. At sunset the mostly thin to localized moderate density smoke plumes were drifting southeast into northern Florida. Over southern Florida, a fire just south of Lake Okeechobee in Palm Beach county was emitting a moderate density smoke plume that was drifting southwest into Collier county. Also a fire near the Gulf coast of Collier county was emitting a thin smoke plume that was drifting southwest over the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Midwest and Lower Mississippi Valley: Of the large number of fires which extends from Illinois to Louisiana the most significant smoke plumes were being generated by fires in the following locations: 1. Mostly thin smoke plumes drifting north and northeast from several fires in Scott county in western Arkansas. 2. A large moderate density smoke plume drifting northeast from a fire in the vicinity of the Angelina National Forest near the Jasper and Angelina county border in Texas. 3. A large thin to locally moderately dense smoke plume drifting northeast from a fire in Franklin county in Mississippi. California/Oregon/Washington: A cluster of agricultural fires in the northern Sacramento Valley were producing an area of thin and mostly stagnant smoke over Glenn/Butte/Sutter/Yuba counties. More significant smoke plumes were originating from fires over Lake and Baker counties in Oregon and Columbia county in Washington. The plumes were mostly thin with localized areas of moderate density. Hanna