THROUGH 0100Z March 30, 2021
Central and Southern Plains…
Widespread smoke-producing agricultural burning activity was observed
from eastern Texas into eastern Kansas, central Missouri, and southern
Illinois and Indiana. Varying density smoke was observed emanating from
these fires, with the thickest smoke originating from the Ozarks and
eastern Texas. Smoke from these fires was moving off toward the north.
South Dakota…
Three or four smoke producing fires were observed in South Dakota this
afternoon. The mainly light smoke (with one in south-central South Dakota
producing thick smoke) was moving off toward the southeast behind a cold
front over the eastern Dakotas and Nebraska.
Southeastern CONUS…
Further agricultural burning activity was observed from the Gulf Coast
into the Carolinas. The highest density of smoke producing fire activity
was across southwestern Georgia, where mainly light to moderate density
smoke was observed moving off toward the west. Across the Carolinas,
smoke was moving off toward the south or southeast.
Southern and Central Mexico into Central America and the Pacific Ocean…
A large area of leftover smoke from the previous couple of days of fire
activity along with some contributions from today’s fire activity,
was observed along the southern and southwestern Mexican coast out to
the southwest into the tropical Pacific. Today’s contributions are
coming from Jalisco, with one fire in southern Jalisco producing thick
smoke. There is likely much more contribution coming from other portions
of southern Mexico, but cloud cover is inhibiting the analysis of smoke
from Michoacan into Veracruz.
BLOWING DUST:
Western/Central Nevada into California…
Satellite imagery shows strong winds out of the north lofting dust from
the Humboldt Sink and surrounding dry lake beds and transporting it
southward just across the California Border to Eureka Dunes and Gold
Mountain in Nevada.
Utah into far eastern central Nevada…
Another area of lofted dust was observed emanating from central Utah into
southern Utah and far eastern Nevada. The southern extent was Highland
Peak in Nevada and Big Point/Pine Valley in Utah between Cedar City and
St. George and extending east across much of the rest of southern Utah.
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