DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z April 28, 2016
SMOKE: Bay of Campeche/Western Gulf of Mexico/Southeast Texas/Louisiana/Mississippi: An expansive area of thin to moderately dense residual smoke from ongoing seasonal burning occurring in portions of Mexico and Central America is visible from the Bay of Campeche northward across the western and northern Gulf of Mexico into the Lower Mississippi River Valley and southern Texas. This area of remnant smoke has expanded westward into the eastern slopes of the Sierra Madre Oriental mountains and can be see as far east as Mississippi although cloud cover obscures the full extent of this smoke to the east. Southeastern Gulf of Mexico: A small patch of thin smoke could be seen moving northwest from western Cuba, likely from agricultural burning there yesterday. -Cronin THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME DETACHED FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE..TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ARE ALSO DESCRIBED. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF THESE AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO THE SOURCE FIRE IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE: JPEG: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/land/hms.html GIS: http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm KML: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov