DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0000Z May 24, 2019
SMOKE:
Texas/Oklahoma/Southeastern New Mexico/Gulf of Mexico/Mexico/Central
America/Pacific off the coast of Mexico and Central America...
The continuing significant seasonal burning and wildfire activity
occurring across portions of Mexico and Central America was responsible
for a huge mass of smoke covering much of Mexico (with the exception
of the northwest part), Central America, and stretching offshore to the
south over the Pacific. The smoke also extended northward over the Bay
of Campeche and the western Gulf of Mexico and northern Mexico over much
of Texas, Oklahoma, a portion of southeastern New Mexico. It also began
moving northeast-east into states such as Kansas, Missouri and southern
Illinois. Within the area of smoke over Texas was a band of moderately
dense to even locally thicker smoke extending from near Wichita Falls
TX to just west of Brownsville TX. Embedded areas of moderately dense
to thick smoke were noted within the larger surrounding thin density
smoke and these were seen over the western Gulf of Mexico, the Bay of
Campeche, and over portions of southern and eastern Mexico and Central
America and offshore over the nearby part of the Pacific.
Area from eastern Alaska to eastern Canada and the Northwestern U.S...
Long range transport of leftover moderately dense to thick smoke from the
larger wildfire activity burning recently in Alberta was seen extending
from eastern Alaska southeastward over south central Canada. A narrow band
of thin smoke then extended to the east and northeast stretching all the
way to eastern Canada where it became obscured in cloud cover. Thin to
moderately dense smoke also spread to the west and southwest from south
central Canada across Montana to central Idaho and northeastern Oregon.
Area off the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic U.S. Coast/Canada Coast...
Swaths of thin density leftover smoke from the fires over Alberta were
also seen off the Northeast, Southeast, and Mid-Atlantic and southeastern
Canada coast.
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