DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0000Z February 13, 2026
SMOKE: Central/Southeast CONUS... Widespread agricultural fires across the region produced multiple plumes of light-to-moderate smoke this evening throughout the Central Plains, Southern Plains, and the Mississippi Valley. Smoke was especially concentrated in the southeast, with moderate-to-heavy plumes observed in central Alabama and across most of Georgia. Florida… Agricultural fires south of Lake Okeechobee were observed producing individual light-density smoke plumes that moved southeast into the Atlantic Ocean. Smoke plumes across the Florida Panhandle extended offshore into the Gulf of America. Cuba… Widespread agricultural fires were observed producing light-density smoke plumes that encompassed most of southwestern and central Cuba. Smoke continued to travel offshore to the southwest. AEROSOL/SMOKE: Mexico/Gulf of America/Pacific Ocean… Smoke from scattered fire activity, as well as industrial aerosol emissions and remnant smoke from previous days, concentrated into a layer of light-density smoke that extended southwestward off the Mexican and Guatemalan coasts into the Pacific Ocean. Smoke also stretched along the northwestern coast of Mexico, through the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the Bay of Campeche, and into the Gulf of America along the southern coast of Texas. Gaskill 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