DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1620Z November 1, 2022

SMOKE:
Gulf of Mexico/Mexico/Pacific...
An area of mixed active and remnant smoke/pollution emissions was
observed blanketing an area from the northeastern Gulf of Mexico to the
tropical NE Pacific.  One area seems to be emanating from the Mexican
states of Michoacan, western Guerrero, Colima, and far southern Jalisco
and moving offshore while another main source region appears to be gas
flaring in the Bay of Campeche and the Mexican states of Tabasco and
southern Veracruz.  Further contributions may be the result of
scattered fire activity from southern Mexico to Honduras.  The smoke is
generally moving north from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec along the
eastern coast of Mexico until the smoke interacts with a front moving
through the northern Gulf of Mexico, where the smoke is drawn
northeastward ahead of the front almost to the Florida Panhandle.
Smoke south of Mexico is generally moving westward further out across
the eastern Pacific.

Kansas...
Light remnant smoke was observed across eastern Kansas and parts of
northern Oklahoma. This remnant smoke was likely due to a fire produced
from the Evergreen Companies pallet recycling plant in the previous day.

Nguyen


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 map:	https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg
Smoke data:
https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS/Smoke_Polygons
Fire data:
https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS/Fire_Points

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.