DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z December 31, 2010
Currently: Southeast Georgia: A fire on the border of Liberty and Bryan counties is producing a large area of mostly light smoke moving west NW into the counties of Evans, Candler, Bullock, Tattnall, Jenkins, Emanuel and Screven. Eastern Florida: The fire in Brevard County is producing light to possibly moderately dense smoke moving north along Orange and Osceola counties. Earlier Today: East Coast of Florida/Georgia: An extensive batch of light smoke could be seen at sunrise originating near Amelia Island, FL and moving northeast into the Atlantic Ocean. This area of smoke is mainly attributed to the large fire that continued to burn this morning in southern Brevard County, FL along with numerous smaller fires burning yesterday across southeast US. Kibler THE FORMAT OF THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS BEING MODIFIED. IT WILL NO LONGER DESCRIBE THE VARIOUS PLUMES THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES. THESE PLUMES ARE DEPICTED IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE: JPEG: http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/land/hms.html GIS: http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm KML: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html THIS TEXT PRODUCT WILL CONTINUE TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF SMOKE WHICH HAVE BECOME DETACHED FROM AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE, TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. IT WILL ALSO STILL INCLUDE DESCRIPTIONS OF BLOWING DUST. THE SMOKE TEXT PRODUCT IN GENERAL SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THESE CHANGES OR THE SMOKE TEXT PRODUCT IN GENERAL SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov