DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0245Z April 2, 2017
SMOKE: Bay of Campeche/Western Gulf of Mexico/Southeastern Texas...A large mass of thin to moderately dense smoke was visible stretching from eastern and southeastern Mexico and Central America northward over the Yucatan Peninsula and the Bay of Campeche to the central and western Gulf of Mexico. The smoke may have spread inland over southern and southeastern Texas though cloudiness in this area hindered information concerning the extent of the smoke in satellite imagery. Southeastern US...Many individual smoke plumes were seen scattered over the Southeastern US from Mississippi eastward to South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Central US...Numerous fires were detected over eastern Oklahoma and southeastern Kansas in between breaks in the clouds but little smoke was visible due to the extensive cloud cover. DUST: Western and Southwestern Texas/Southeastern New Mexico...Possible remnant thin density dust was seen in the relatively cloud free areas of western and southwestern Texas and southeastern New Mexico but widespread cloud cover over much of the Central and South Central US limited additional detection of dust in satellite imagery. JS 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