DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0235Z April 25, 2021
SMOKE: Kansas... A great amount of seasonal fires were seen over southern and eastern Kansas producing thin density smoke plumes moving generally to the north and northeast. Far southern Texas/Florida/Gulf of Mexico/Bay of Campeche/Mexico/Central America/Pacific south of Mexico/Cuba/Bahamas... The ongoing significant amount of seasonal fires occurring in Mexico, Central America, and Cuba were responsible for a huge area of thin to moderate density smoke covering central, southern, and eastern Mexico, the northwestern part of Central America, a portion of the Pacific south of Mexico and Central America, the Bay of Campeche, much of the Gulf of Mexico, far southern Texas, the Florida peninsula, western Cuba, and the northern Bahamas. Embedded areas of thicker smoke were seen around some of the larger fires especially in southern Mexico. A relatively thick area of smoke was also visible moving east across the south central Gulf of Mexico. Thinner density smoke appeared to extend as far as the northern Bahamas and off Atlantic Ocean. DUST: Central-Eastern Arizona/New Mexico... Gusty winds from the southwest were kicking up significant blowing dusts which emanated primarily from sources in Apache County, central-eastern Arizona, and Montosa Mountain and White Sands National Monument of New Mexico. The dusts then spread quickly to northeast across border between Arizona and New Mexico, and southeastern New Mexico, respectively. YL 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