DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0000Z April 02, 2020
SMOKE:
Central Plains/Mid-Mississippi Valley…
A mixture of both remnant smoke from yesterday’s fire activity and smoke
from today’s fire activity is responsible for a fairly large area of
light to moderate smoke blanketing eastern Kansas, southeastern Nebraska,
Missouri, Iowa, and western Illinois. Among this larger blanket, only a
handful of individual smoke plumes were analyzed due to a broken cirrus
deck moving over the area. There is surely more smoke than analyzed, but
the cirrus deck inhibits the analysis of smoke across eastern Kansas,
Missouri, southwestern Iowa, and Nebraska. It should be noted that,
although still high, the magnitude of fire activity across eastern Kansas
and Iowa was of noticeably lesser than in yesterday’s analysis while
the level of fire activity across Illinois increased today compared
to yesterday.
Texas Gulf Coast…
Some fire activity along the Texas Gulf Coast was producing varying
density smoke this afternoon. The smoke from these fires was moving
west-northwest to northwest.
Southeast U.S.…
Clear skies across the southeastern CONUS allowed for much more smoke
and fire activity to be analyzed across much of the southeastern CONUS
today. Mainly within 175 miles of the Gulf Coast in Mississippi, Alabama,
and Georgia, fire activity was producing light to moderate smoke that
was moving off toward the south-southeast.
Southern Florida/Bahamas…
Scattered fire activity in the area south of Lake Okeechobee was producing
light smoke that was moving off toward the southeast. The thick smoke
from the fire on Little Abaco Island was moving off toward the east and
southeast behind a cold front. Smoke was extending out over 300 miles
from the parent fire into the Atlantic Ocean.
Mexico/Southern Gulf of Mexico…
Fire and gas flaring activity throughout southern Mexico, the Yucatan
Peninsula, and Honduras was responsible for producing light to moderate
density smoke. Sea Breezes from the Caribbean Sea, Bay of Campeche,
and the Gulf of Mexico were helping to concentrate smoke emissions
across Tabasco, Chiapas, eastern Campeche, and northern Guatemala. Fire
activity in western Guerrero and eastern Michoacan was also producing
light to moderate density smoke.
Cuba…
Continued fire activity throughout Cuba was again producing thin to
moderate density smoke. Much of the smoke was moving off toward the east
ahead of a cold front.
Hosley
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