THROUGH 0100Z March 31, 2021
Texas , Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, Eastern Pacific Ocean...
A large region of light smoke was observed over the eastern Mexico,
Texas, and Louisiana Gulf Coast, western Gulf of Mexico, and western
Bay of Campeche. Some of this was concentrating along and west of a
convergence line that originated offshore and slowly migrated west,
making it onshore along southern Texas.
Elsewhere, fire activity throughout Mexico was producing varying density
smoke. The most dense smoke production was occurring in Nuevo Leon
and moving northeastward and across central Mexico (Jalisco to State
of Mexico and Morelos) moving southward. Smoke from fire activity in
the Yucatan and into Guatemala was moving off toward the northwest
and west, respectively.Smoke across northern Mexcio was moving mainly
east-northeast.
Central Plains…
Fire activity across Kansas, Oklahoma, far southeastern Colorado,
and the north Texas Panhandle was producing mainly light smoke this
afternoon with a few producing moderate smoke. Smoke across central and
eastern Kansas and Oklahoma was moving south, while smoke further west
was moving west-southwest. Further smoke production may have occurred
across eastern Oklahoma, eastern Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana
this afternoon, but cloud cover over the area inhibited the analysis of
smoke across this region.
Southeast/Mid-Atlantic…
Scattered fire activity across the southeast was noted producing mainly
light smoke. Much of this smoke was moving off toward the north or
north-northeast. One fire in particular near the North Carolina / South
Carolina border was producing moderate smoke. Further smoke production
may have occurred in other portions of the southeast, but weather cloud
cover here also inhibited the analysis of smoke.
South Dakota…
A presumably grassland fire in northwestern South Dakota was producing
moderate smoke this afternoon that was extending east-southeast across
much of the state by sundown.
BLOWING DUST:
Southwestern Arizona/Southern and Central New Mexico/Northern Chihuahua
and West Texas…
Willcox Playa in southwestern Arizona, White Sands in south-central New
Mexico, the dry lake bed of Lake Estancia, and the deserts of northern
Chihuahua were producing light to moderate blowing dust plumes this
afternoon that were seen moving off toward the east.
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