DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z December 29, 2005
Oklahoma/Texas: The coverage and intensity of the fires across the region stretching from central Texas to northeastern Oklahoma was not nearly as great as last evening. Patchy high cloudiness moving across the central and southern Plains likely obscured some of the smoke, especially over Texas. However, visible smoke plumes were detected through the high clouds from at least 2 source regions. One cluster of fires which were still intense over Seminole County of central Oklahoma was emitting a long narrow smoke plume which moved quickly southeastward. A second batch along the Atoka-Pushmataha County border was also producing a long narrow southeastward moving smoke plume. Florida: Numerous fires in the counties surrounding Lake Okeechobee were observed through the morning and afternoon with the most concentrated batch of fires noted across Palm Beach County. An area of relatively thin smoke produced by these fires moved northeastward during the afternoon across the counties of St. Lucie and Martin and offshore. Louisiana: A rather intense fire near the border of Sabine and Vernon Parishes of western Louisiana was responsible for a locally dense smoke plume which moved to the southeast during the afternoon. JS