DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0232Z March 25, 2007
Southeastern States: A large number of fires were detected on satellite imagery this evening from the Carolinas to Louisiana. Scattered high clouds throughout the region greatly limited smoke detection to a few scattered smoke plumes over southern Mississippi that were drifting northwest and to a few smoke plumes over southeastern South Carolina that were drifting eastward. All of these plumes were generally thin with a few localized areas of moderate density smoke. By far the most prominent smoke plume detected over the southeast was with a fire over western Union County in Tennessee. The moderately dense smoke plume associated with this fire extended east into Mitchell and Avery counties in extreme western North Carolina. Red River and Mississippi River Valleys: A large number of fires was mostly concentrated from southeastern Oklahoma and extending into northeastern Arkansas. Although only a few smoke plumes were detected in the overall fire activity, the plumes that were detected were rather large with localized areas of very dense smoke. The fires emitting these plumes were the following: 1. A long lasting fire over northern McCurtain county in Oklahoma. The moderately dense to localized dense smoke plume associated with this fire was extending mostly north into southern Delaware county. At sunset the highest density smoke appeared to be from northern Le Flore county into Adair county. 2. Large fires over northeast Johnson county and southeastern Marion county in Arkansas. The smoke plumes from the Johnson and Marion county fires extended north and merged over southern Arkansas with the plumes furthest northern extent near Springfield and extending east into Wright county. Large areas of moderate density smoke extended from the point sources of each respective fire and covered large portions of Christian/Taney/Douglas/Ozark counties with an area high density smoke confined mostly to an area located near the common border of Taney/Christian/Douglas counties. Hanna