DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z April 4, 2019
SMOKE:
Central U.S. to Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern U.S...
A swath of thin density leftover smoke mainly from yesterday's significant
seasonal burning over the Central U.S. was visible stretching from
central Missouri/northern Arkansas eastward to the Mid-Atlantic region
and northeast from there across much of the Northeast. During the
day, more significant seasonal fires were detected across the Central
U.S. with more concentrated activity over the eastern third of Kansas and
northeastern Oklahoma as well as northeastern Arkansas and southeastern
Missouri. Some new areas of thin density smoke were visible across these
locations though cloudiness interfered with additional information on
smoke density and extent.
South Central and Southeastern U.S...
Additional scattered seasonal type fires were again noted from Arkansas
and Louisiana eastward to the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida with
numerous individual smoke plumes of varying density.
Mexico/Central America/Gulf of Mexico...
Widespread ongoing seasonal burning especially over southern and eastern
Mexico and Central America was responsible for a large area of thin
density smoke which covered much of this region as well as the Bay of
Campeche and the western Gulf of Mexico with smoke likely extending as
far north as the southern and southeastern Texas coast. Smoke was also
seen off the southern coast of Mexico and Central America.
DUST:
Northern Mexico/Southern New Mexico...
Mainly thin density blowing dust was visible spreading to the east from
White Sands in southern New Mexico and from sources in the northern
portion of the Mexican state of Chihuahua in far northern Mexico with
some of the dust likely reaching extreme western Texas near El Paso.
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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/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg
GIS: ftp://satpsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/FIRE/HMS/GIS/
KML: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/fire.kml (fire)
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/smoke.kml (smoke)
ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO:
SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov