Popocatepetl
FVXX24 at 15:44 UTC, 19/05/26 from KNES VA ADVISORY DTG: 20260519/1542Z VAAC: WASHINGTON VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090 PSN: N1901 W09837 AREA: MEXICO SOURCE ELEV: 17693 FT AMSL ADVISORY NR: 2026/198 INFO SOURCE: GOES-19. NWP MODELS. ERUPTION DETAILS: LGT VA EMS OBS VA DTG: 19/1521Z OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL200 N1913 W09837 - N1904 W09835 - N1901 W09837 - N1901 W09838 - N1902 W09840 - N1911 W09846 - N1913 W09837 MOV N 5KT FCST VA CLD +6HR: 19/2130Z SFC/FL200 N1912 W09844 - N1901 W09837 - N1901 W09837 - N1907 W09850 - N1912 W09844 FCST VA CLD +12HR: 20/0330Z SFC/FL200 N1913 W09834 - N1901 W09837 - N1901 W09837 - N1912 W09844 - N1913 W09834 FCST VA CLD +18HR: 20/0930Z NO VA EXP RMK: LGT AND DISSIPATING VA EMS OBSD IN STLT IMG EXTG APPRX 10 NM NNW FM SUMMIT. SOME VA EMS MAY BE OBSCD DUE TO MET CLDS. A MORE NW MVMT EXP BY T+6 HRS. MVMT AND HGT BASED ON STLT OBS AND NWP MDLS. ...BERTALAN NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20260519/2145Z
Popocatepetl
Volcán Popocatépetl, whose name is the Aztec word for smoking mountain, rises 70 km SE of Mexico City to form North America's 2nd-highest volcano. The glacier-clad stratovolcano contains a steep-walled, 400 x 600 m wide crater. The generally symmetrical volcano is modified by the sharp-peaked Ventorrillo on the NW, a remnant of an earlier volcano. At least three previous major cones were destroyed by gravitational failure during the Pleistocene, producing massive debris-avalanche deposits covering broad areas to the south. The modern volcano was constructed south of the late-Pleistocene to Holocene El Fraile cone. Three major Plinian eruptions, the most recent of which took place about 800 CE, have occurred since the mid-Holocene, accompanied by pyroclastic flows and voluminous lahars that swept basins below the volcano. Frequent historical eruptions, first recorded in Aztec codices, have occurred since Pre-Columbian time.
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