DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1801Z May 2, 2019
SMOKE:
Texas/Mexico/Central America...
The ongoing significant amount of seasonal burning in Mexico and Central
America has created a large mass of smoke that has spread across southern
Mexico, Central America, and southern Texas. There was a mixture of
light-to-moderate density smoke from southern Mexico, specifically the Bay
of Campeche, moving north-northeast along the Mexico's eastern coast and
reaching as far as southern Texas. The light-to-moderate density smoke
emitting from the fires on the southern coasts of Mexico and Central
America was moving southwest into the Pacific Ocean.
Southeast U.S....
There was an elongated portion of remnant light density smoke plume from
yesterday's fires seen in western Mississippi across to northwest South
Carolina. and moving southeast.
Rodriguez
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