Friday, March 21, 2008

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0115Z March 22, 2008

Southeast US:
A tremendous number of fires were seen stretching across Mississippi,
Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida this afternoon and
evening. Numerous smoke plumes were seen across the region and they were
almost uniformly moving to the north, with the exception of those plumes
over the northwest Florida peninsula which were moving to the west out
over the Gulf of Mexico. Some of the larger plumes with moderately dense
to locally dense smoke were emanating from fires in Calhoun and Cleburne
counties and along the Bibb/Perry county border in Alabama, Charleston
county in South Carolina, Franklin and Forrest counties in Mississippi

Oklahoma/Kansas:
A large number of fires were seen in Oklahoma/Kansas but most of these
had little to no smoke observed with them. Two notable smoke plumes
were seen drifting south from fires in Osage county Oklahoma (reaching
to Pittsburgh county by sunset) and Butler county Kansas.

Texas:
Cloud were making smoke detection difficult with the fires over eastern
Texas today. However, a couple of plumes were noted over Montgomery and
Angelina counties and were moving to the north. Another plume from a fire
over eastern Kenedy county was moving to the northeast out over the Gulf.

Mexico:
A fire continues to burn in northern Mexico near Monterrey. A plume of
thin to moderate smoke was extending from the fire to the west=southwest.

Arizona:
A fire over southern Mohave county had a plume of moderately dense smoke
extending to the east-southeast into Yavapai county.

California:
Several short puffs of smoke were seen with blazes just north of
Sacramento. The smoke was drifting to the south.

Hawaii:
A large area of mainly vog was seen extending more than 500 km off the
west coast of the Big Island. There is likely some smoke mixed in with
the vog due to burning vegetation from the lava flows.

Ruminski



 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.