DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z April 3, 2007
Lower Mississippi Valley/Southern and Central Plains: Numerous fires are burning across Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas this evening with most of these fires emitting light smoke plumes moving northerly and staying within county borders. The largest concentration of smoke producing fires are burning across western/central Arkansas, northeast Oklahoma and eastern Kansas. Fires in the counties of Montgomery, Sebastian, Logan, Johnson, Franklin, Van Buren, Faulkner, Yell, and Pope Arkansas are producing a moderate to thick smoke plume moving north to NNW across northern Arkansas and into south central Missouri. Some of these fires have been burning most of the day. In Missouri fires in Butler and Crawford counties are producing only light smoke, but the smoke plumes are moving into numerous counties. The Butler fire is emitting smoke north into Wayne, Madison and Iron counties and the Crawford county fire is emitting smoke north NE into Washington county. In eastern Kansas fires burning in the counties of Chautauqua, Elk, Cowley, Greenwood, Butler, Montgomery, Wilson, Coffey, Woodson, Chase and Lyon counties are emitting long narrow light plumes of smoke moving north NW along eastern Kansas. Some of these plumes are combining (stretching from south to north) to make one longer plume. In Oklahoma a fire in Pushmataha county is producing a long narrow plume of light smoke moving north into Latimer, Pittsburg and Haskell counties. In Latimer county a fire is emitting a plume of light smoke moving north into Haskell, Pittsburg, McIntosh and Muskogee counties. In Osage county light smoke from a fire is moving north across state borders into Chautauqua county in Kansas. Florida: In Palm Beach county a fire is producing light to moderate smoke moving west NW into Glades, Hendry and Highlands counties. The fire has been producing smoke for most of the day. In Gulf County in the Florida Panhandle a fire is emitting smoke towards the southwest into the county of Franklin and into the Gulf of Mexico. California/Oregon. On the border of Modoc and Siskiyou a fire is producing a light plume of smoke moving east. Some smoke is reaching parts of southern Oregon. In Klamath county Oregon a light plume of smoke is moving east into Lake county from a fire burning over the past 2-4 hours. J Kibler