DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2300Z October 17, 2025
SMOKE: Mississippi Valley/Southeastern United States/Northern Gulf of America... A large area of light-density smoke could be seen over the most of the Mississippi Valley where widespread agricultural burning was detected. The plume also extended westward over parts of the Great Plains including central-eastern Texas, eastern Oklahoma and eastern Kansas, and southeastward over Alabama, Georgia and the northern Gulf of America. AEROSOL/SMOKE: Central Mexico/Southern Gulf of America... A light-density plume consisting primarily of aerosols from gas flaring and other urban/industrial activity in central Mexico, mixed with additional emissions from scattered fire activity in the region, could be seen spreading along Mexico’s Gulf coast and Bay of Campeche, extending into central Mexico and over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the states of Guerrero, Michoacan, Colima and Jalisco. GM 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 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