DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0123Z April 11, 2026
SMOKE: Midwestern U.S... Fires were active across the Midwestern United States this evening. While many individual, mostly low-density smoke plumes were observed, they merged into a large plume drifting east-southeast. Southeastern CONUS... Widespread agricultural fires across the southeastern U.S., particularly in east-central Alabama and central Georgia, were observed producing light to moderate density smoke plumes that primarily drifted westward. Additional fires were detected in Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia. Two large planned fires near the Virginia-West Virginia border were observed producing light to moderate density smoke drifting northeast. AEROSOL/SMOKE: Mexico/Gulf of America/Central America/Pacific Ocean... Smoke from fire activity, remnant smoke from previous days, and aerosol emissions from gas flaring and other industrial activities in central and southern Mexico spread as a layer of light-density smoke that extended into the Bay of Campeche, across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and along the southern coasts of Mexico and Central America before continuing southwestward into the Pacific. YL 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