DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0115Z OCTOBER 09, 2007
Mid Atlantic: A fire in Mecklenburg county Virginia produced a thin plume of smoke that drifted to the southeast into northern North Carolina. Fires in Tyrrell and Pamlico counties in eastern North Carolina had narrow plumes of thin smoke that moved to the southeast. A fire along the Richmond/Montgomery county border in North Carolina had a plume of thin smoke that extended to the southwest. A fire in southern Abbeville county South Carolina had a plume of locally moderately dense smoke that extended to the west, just crossing the border into Georgia. Alabama: A couple of fire in Covington county in southern Alabama were producing narrow plumes of thin smoke that extended to the west southwest along the Florida border. Southern Plains: Numerous fires from southwest Kansas, across the western Texas Panhandle and into west central Texas just north of Lubbock were producing areas of smoke that were generally moving to the south and southwest. Most of the smoke producing fires were clustered in and around Dallam county Texas, Castro and Lamb counties Texas and Haskell county Kansas. California: Numerous fires in eastern Colusa, eastern Glenn and northern Sutter counties in northern California were producing plumes of smoke that have merged into a larger coherent area of smoke that drifted to the north. The smoke was mainly thin but locally moderately dense. Oregon: A fire in east central Harney county produced a narrow plume of thin smoke that extended north but remained in Hsrney county. Hawaii: A mix of smoke and vog was seen emanating from the Kilauea volcano and extending to the west. This smoke/vog mix fanned out as it extended west of South Point into the Pacific. Ruminski