DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 23345Z NOVEMBER 06, 2008

California:
Several smoke plumes were seen with fires in El Dorado, Amador and
Calaveras counties. The smoke was mainly thin and moving to the west
and southwest. The largest plume, which had some locally moderately
dense smoke near the source, was over northeast Calaveras county with
the smoke extending to the south across Tuolumne into Mariposa county.

A puff of smoke was also seen with a fire in western Santa Barbara county
along the coast. The plume drifted south off the coast.

Arizona:
A narrow plume of thin smoke was seen with a fire along the southern
Yavapai/Coconino border west of Happy Jack. The smoke extended south
into northeast Maricopa.

Wyoming:
A fire on the east side of the Wind River Range in Fremont county west
of Lander had a plume of light to moderately dense smoke that extended
to the south-southeast into northern Sweetwater county.

Texas Panhandle:
Several fires were noted with small puffs of light smoke that were
drifting to the east-southeast. The smoke was coming from fires that
were mainly in Castro, southern Randall, Hansford and Moore counties.

Kentucky/Ohio:
A plume of light to moderately dense smoke was seen from a fire near the
Ross/Hocking/Vinton county confluence in south central Ohio. The smoke
was moving to the north into southern Fairfield county.

Numerous fires were over southeast Kentucky with light to moderately
dense plumes lifting to the north. The plumes were extending northward
from southern Wayne into Pulaski, from Knox into Clay and the most smoke
was coming from a fire along the Harlan/Bell border into Leslie and Perry.

Georgia/Alabama/Florida:
Numerous fires were seen across these two states. The notable smoke
plumes were mainly confined to central Georgia, where they were mainly
thin smoke and moving to the east, and southern and central Alabama,
where the plumes were also drifting to the east. A couple of smoke plumes
were also seen over the western Florida panhandle drifting to the east,
while a fire in eastern Franklin county had a light smoke plume that
was moving to the south into the Gulf of Mexico.

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.