DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0000Z April 27, 2007
Gulf of Mexico/Bay of Campeche/Yucatan Peninsula A large area of thin to moderately dense smoke covers the entire SW portion of the Gulf of Mexico (south of Baffin Bay TX), the Bay of Campeche and extends SE to the Yucatan Peninsula (where the origin fires are burning from Tabasco across all the Peninsula with a bulk of the fires in N Guatemala). The smoke then is being pulled northeastward along a draping frontal boundary and extends about 175km either side of a line from Panama City Beach Florida to 26N90W to 22N93W where it merges with the large area of slightly higher density aforementioned smoke. Georgia: Moderate to dense smoke continues to be emitted by the Big Turnaround Fire Complex to the SE of Waycross, GA in Ware county. The smoke has been moving due NNE nearly all day extending nearly 200km to the SC/GA boarder near Sylvania in Screven county. The plume is relatively thin at about 18km at its widest. A new fire near Raybon in Brantley county along US-301 has produced thin to moderately dense smoke that has been entrained into a developing towering cumulus cloud along the sea breeze boundary and has been lifted into the middle to upper atmosphere and is moving NE rapidly to around Ossabaw Island and is about 15km wide. The lower level smoke similar to the Big Turnaround fire is moving due north but is obscurred by smoke from the Big Turnaround fire and approaching convective cloud blowoff. Louisiana: A fire near Savage Fork/Caney area of Vernon parish is producing very thin smoke that is drifting E in a 13km wide plume that extends about 50km into Allen parish. Kansas: A fire W of Belvidere in Kiowa county, a fire near the Mule River along the Comanche/Barber county line, and a fire near Lake City in W Barber county are all producing smoke plumes that extend about 30km to the SE and are about 10km wide. This has covered most of W Barber county. Other fires in the area are producing similar plume but are currently obscurred by approaching high cirrus clouds. New Mexico: A fire near Reserve in the Tularosa Mts. has recently increased smoke output with moderate to high density. The plume currently extends aobut 70km ENE nearing the Catron/Soccoro line near north of Dusty. It is also about 12km near the source, but fans out to about 20km near the boarder. A second fire recently sent a puff of thin to moderate smoke moving NW from the SW portion of Eddy county in the Lincoln Nat'l Forest/Gaudalupe Mts. just to the west of the Carlsbad Nat'l Park. Oregon: A fire near Sitkum in Coos county is producing a V-shaped plume of moderate smoke with one wing moving due E to the bank of the highest mtn peaks along the county line and the other wing moving due N to the county line near (just east of) Reedsport. Gallina