DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z May 20, 2008
Texas: In Val Verde County, a moderately dense smoke plume was seen moving to the northeast and extended out 50 miles or so into Crockett and Sutton Counties, in the western part of the state. In Refugio County, a heavy smoke plume earlier this afternoon fanned out in an eastward direction into Calhoun County, along the Gulf of Mexico. Oregon: In Coos County, a heavy smoke plume was observed moving to the east into Douglas County. However, with clouds moving in off the Pacific, and obscuring the smoke from being viewed, it can only be presumed that smoke moved further to the east later this evening. Louisiana: A heavy smoke plume was spotted in Vernon County moving east and extended out 20 miles from the source. However lighter smoke extended much further out into the east-central part of the state. Florida: In Liberty County, along the panhandle, a moderately dense smoke plume was moving towards the east earlier this afternoon. Lighter smoke extended out further, some 80 miles from the source of origin. Along the Gulf Coast region, light to moderately dense smoke could be seen right before sunset in visible imagery stretching from the Texas Coast to Florida, moving inland at least 75 miles in areas like Mississippi and Alabama, and even well inland in Georgia and South Carolina. Smoke from oil rigs in the southern Gulf of Mexico and Bay of Campeche drifted its way northward through the course of the day.