DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0045Z NOVEMBER 06, 2008
Kentucky/Ohio/West Virginia: Fires scattered primarily across eastern Kentucky, southern Ohio, and southwestern West Virginia were emitting mainly thin to locally moderately dense smoke plumes which moved in a west-southwesterly direction. Middle and Lower Mississippi Valley: A massive number of what are believed to be mainly agricultural fires were analyzed again over eastern Arkansas, northwestern Mississippi, and southeastern Missouri. These fires produce thin to locally moderately dense smoke plumes which spread to the north and combined into larger patches of smoke over eastern Arkansas and southeastern Missouri. Alabama/northwestern Florida/Mississippi: Numerous fires were scattered across the Southeastern US with visible smoke plumes seen in satellite imagery from more than 40 of these fires. The clockwise flow around high pressure centered over the Southeast was steering the smoke plumes over Alabama and the Florida Panhandle to the south while plumes over Mississippi were being blown to the north. The most noteworthy smoke plume in this region was a moderately dense to dense plume which moved southward to nearly 100 miles offshore over the Gulf of Mexico from a fire in Franklin County in the Florida Panhandle. Arizona: At least 5 smoke producing fires were visible in southern Coconino and northern Gila counties of central Arizona. The thin to locally moderately dense plumes moved in a southeasterly direction during the day. JS