DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0115Z May 22, 2007
Southeast/Gulf of Mexico: The complex of fires in southern Georgia have resulted in dense smoke stretching from the northeast Gulf of Mexico to the coastal plain of South Carolina. Light residual smoke covers much of the remainder of the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi and southern Alabama. Light residual smoke also extends over the Atlantic Ocean east of Georgia and South Carolina where it merges with an area of haze of unknown origin and composition that is moving east off the Virginia and North Carolina Coast. Moderate smoke extended west into the Gulf of Mexico from two fires in Collier County, Florida. Southwest: A narrow plume of light to possibly moderate smoke stretched 115 nmi to the northeast of the blaze in the Tonto National Forest. Dense dust was approaching the California-Mexico border from the south while a lighter area of dust was moving northeast from Mexico into southern Arizona. California: A fire in Siskiyou County was producing a dense plume of smoke up to 55 nmi to the south.