Wednesday, April 28, 2021

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z April 28, 2021

SMOKE:
Mexico/Gulf of Mexico/Lower Mississippi Valley...
Widespread agricultural burns continue across parts of Mexico with a
thin density plume covering most of central and eastern Mexico, the
Bay of Campeche, the western Gulf of Mexico, eastern Texas, and most
of Louisiana and Arkansas.  An area of moderate density smoke was
detected over the southern Bay of Campeche.

Central Plains to Great Lakes…
A remnant thin density plume from the previous day wildfire in New
Mexico was detected extending from the Texas/Oklahoma Panhandles
northeastward through parts of Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa into the
Great Lakes region.

Ohio Valley/Mid-Atlantic/Atlantic...
Another remnant thin density plume from the previous day wildfire in
New Mexico was detected over the Ohio Valley extending east-southeast
across the Mid-Atlantic into the Atlantic out to near Bermuda.  A
moderate density plume was located from just south of Long Island to
about halfway between Cape Hatteras and Bermuda.


DUST:
Atlantic...
A thin plume of Saharan dust was detected over the far eastern tropical
Atlantic.

Konon


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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.