DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z April 6, 2008

Nebraska/Kansas/Oklahoma/Texas:
Some of the leftover very thin smoke from yesterday's fires described
in the earlier smoke text narrative was still visible during the late
afternoon extending from around the Dallas-Ft. Worth region of north
central Texas to north central Oklahoma. An incredible number of fires
continue to be observed during the daytime hours across eastern Kansas
and northeastern Oklahoma. However, due to cloudiness moving across the
region this afternoon, only some of the new smoke from today's fires
was briefly visible. These patches of new smoke were moving to the north
over northeastern Oklahoma and southeastern Kansas and also to the north
from northeastern Kansas into southeastern Nebraska. Farther to the
southwest, quick puffs of primarily thin to moderately dense smoke from
fires in Haskell and Irion Counties of northwestern and western Texas
moved quickly to the north-northeast covering a large distance by sunset.

New Mexico:
A fire fanned by strong southwesterly winds appeared to spread rapidly to
the northeast across central Lea County of southeastern New Mexico. The
resultant thin to locally moderately dense smoke plume also moved very
rapidly to the northeast reaching the northwestern Texas panhandle
by late in the afternoon. The strong southwesterly winds were also
kicking up some blowing sand/dust from White Sands in south central New
Mexico. The blowing sand/dust reached nearly 100 miles to the northeast
of White Sands.

Arizona:
A narrow smoke plume of mainly thin density was observed moving off to
the northeast from a fire in northern Gila County of central Arizona. The
plume nearly reached the AZ-NM border by sunset.

Hawaii:
A very thin possible smoke plume was observed moving to the southwest
from lava flows moving out of the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii. In addition,
a larger mass of thicker volcanic steam/fog (VOG) was visible moving
to the southwest from the volcano and well offshore. This VOG also
extended very far offshore to the southwest of the island as well as to
the southeast of the island where it appeared to become entrained into
the flow around a large low pressure system.

JS

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.