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