DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0115Z March 20, 2007
North Carolina: A thin to locally moderately dense smoke plume was observed moving to the east over Pamlico Sound from a fire in Carteret County of eastern North Carolina. South Carolina: Fires in Chesterfield County of northern South Carolina and Berkeley County of eastern South Carolina were emitting thin to locally moderately dense smoke which spread in a northeasterly direction. Other fires in the southwestern portion of the state were responsible for moderately dense to even very localized dense smoke plumes which were also moving in a northeastward direction. Georgia: A burst of locally dense smoke moved northeastward from a fire in Jones County of central Georgia during the early to middle afternoon. Clusters of fires in southwestern Georgia were responsible for a number of small thin to moderately dense smoke plumes which moved northward and combined to form a larger area during the late afternoon. Florida: A couple of fires in the panhandle counties of Wakulla and Franklin produced long and mainly thin density smoke plumes which moved in a westward direction. Several fires in Jefferson and Leon Counties of northern Florida were emitting mainly small thin density smoke plumes which combined to form a larger area which moved to the northwest into southwestern Georgia. Short lived fires just south of Lake Okeechobee produced a thin area of smoke which spread westward during the afternoon and appeared off the coast of southwestern Florida late in the day. Additional long narrow smoke plumes of mostly thin density moved westward and offshore from fires along the border of DeSoto/Hardee Counties and southern Collier County of central and southwestern Florida respectively. Eastern Texas: Despite the presence of patchy cloudiness, a thin to moderately dense smoke plume was detected moving to the north from a fire close to the San Augustine-Angelina-Jasper County border. JS