DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0045Z March 8, 2008
Hawaii: A mix of light to moderately thick gas, vog and smoke is seen extending west of the Big Island. This mixture is mainly in a 100 km wide band between 18.5N and 20N and extends at least 325km west of the southwest coast of the Big Island. Kansas: A fire in west central Kearny county had a locally dense smoke plume close to the source of the fire which thinned out as the plume drifted to the south across Grant and into Stevens county. A narrow plume of thin smoke in central Pawnee county extended to the south into Edwards county. Texas: Fires in Goliad county and the Matagorda Island Wildlife Management area produced plumes of light smoke that drifted to the southeast out over the western Gulf of Mexico. Ruminski