DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0246Z March 11, 2021
SMOKE:
Eastern United States….
The large number of fires over the southeastern United States was
producing numerous areas of light density smoke from portions of northern
Florida, Georgia and Alabama and then extending northeast to Pennsylvania
and New Jersey.
Gulf of Mexico and Mexico….
An area of light density smoke, from fires over Mexico and Central
America, was extending from southeastern Mexico north along the Mexican
Gulf coastal sections and the western Gulf of Mexico.
Eastern Pacific and Mexico….
Fires over Mexico were also producing an area of light density smoke
over Pacific coastal sections of southwestern Mexico and then extending
into the eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean.
DUST:
Northern Mexico and the Southwestern United States to the Southern and
Central Plains….
A number of areas of blowing dust were seen over the area from Colorado,
New Mexico, Arizona and northern Mexico extending into portions of the
Southern and Central Plains from Kansas, Oklahoma and northern Texas.
Hanna
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