DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0215Z May 08, 2007
Oregon: Several small fires throughout west central Oregon are producing light plumes of smoke that are moving to the west. California/Baja: Fires on the coast of southern California and northern Baja are producing light to moderately dense smoke that is moving west out over the Pacific Ocean. Southeast US: Fires throughout southeastern Georgia and northern Florida are producing a range of moderatley dense to very dense smoke that has combined to form one enormous smoke cloud that is moving to the southwest. The largest source of smoke is from the mass of fires throughout Charlton and Ware counties of southeastern Georgia. The plumes consist of very dense smoke that extends nearly 200 nmi to the southwest into the northeastern portions of the Gulf of Mexico. In Bradford county of northern Florida, there is another large fire that was originally producing moderately dense to dense smoke that was staying rather close to the actual fire, but late in the day it began producing very dense smoke and extending much further to the southwest into the Gulf of Mexico. On the Gulf Coast of Walton county, along Florida's panhandle, a fire has been producing light to moderately dense smoke all day. It was originally moving directly to the southwest over the Gulf, before it began to move further south and southeast. This fire has not produced particularly dense smoke, but it has produced a constant stream of moderately dense smoke that has been easily visible all day. In southern Florida, Collier county, there is a fire that flared late in the evening and began producing moderately dense to dense smoke that was moving southwest over the Gulf. Banks