DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2332Z March 23, 2008

Central Plains:
A narrow strip of thin smoke, haze, dust/sand or unknown aerosol aloft
can be seen along a shear axis from SE ND, E SD, E NE, NE KS into SW MO
between the polar vortex over the Great Lakes and the Ridge over Rockies.
It is clear that it is not cirrus, but it also equally unclear its origin
as well.  Possibilities are aerosols from China caught in a very strong
westerly flow aloft or even SO2/Vog that reached midlevels from Kilauea
volcano, still that is only speculation.

Other significant smoke:
Though there are some light smoke plumes from fires in N MS and SE AL,
the only 2 other fires are producing significant smoke

Oklahoma:  A fire in far western Roger Mills county is producing thin
smoke that has moved south along the TX/OK boarder and covers SW Roger
Mills, W Beckham counties in OK and bends SW into E Collingsworth and
N Childress counties in TX.

Arizona: A fire in Maricopa county just NW of the NW tip of Pinal county
(south of Avondale) is producing moderate smoke that is moving SW toward
I-8 near Gila Bend and Paloma, AZ.

Gallina

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.