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The time travel was short.

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the meteor created a huge air blast across south and north america

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Tsunamis radiated across the golf of mexico

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I see the every information gives where and how happen every moment, and how this impact created a lot of disaster on forests.

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The impact generated Tsunamis.

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In the map i notice that it shows the area where it occured.

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The blast clearing any forests in the area.

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The asteroid crashed somewhere near mexico.Which then wiped forests throughout North and central America.

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Gale is a lot of wind.

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It was a very big explosion most forests were destroyed. wind could have gone south if powerful enough.

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The Chicxulub impact event was an ~100 million megaton blast that devastated the Gulf of Mexico region.

The blast generated a core of superheated plasma in excess of 10,000 degrees. Although that thermal pulse would have been relatively short-lived, a handful of minutes, it would have been lethal for nearby life.

The Chicxulub Impact event produced a shock wave and air blast that radiated across the seas, over coastlines, and deep into the continental interior. Winds far in excess of 1000 kilometers per hour were possible near the impact site, although they decreased with distance from the impact site. The pressure pulse and winds would have scoured soils and shredded vegetation and any animals living in nearby ecosystems. An initial estimate of the area damaged by an air blast was a radius 1500 kilometers. There are several factors that can affect this estimate, so the uncertainty might be better reflected in a range of radii from ~900 to ~1800 km. The travel times are quite short, so this effect would have occurred in advance of any falling debris ejected from the Chicxulub crater.

That debris landed within minutes in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean region. Depending on distance from the impact site, the debris was rocky rubble, impact melted spherules, or mixtures of both. Life on the continental landscape and marine seafloor was buried beneath impact ejecta that was several hundred meters thick near the impact site and decreased with radial distance. Along the Campeche bank, 350 to 600 kilometers from Chicxulub, impact deposits of ~50 to ~300 meters have been logged in boreholes.

Because the impact occurred at sea, tsunamis radiated across the Gulf of Mexico, crashing onto nearby coastlines, and also radiated farther across the proto-Caribbean and Atlantic basins. Estimates of the sizes of the waves vary. Lower estimates suggest the waves were "only" 50 to 100 meters high, while some estimates suggest the tsunamis were 100 to 300 meters high when they crashed onto gulf shores and tore through coastal ecosystems. The tsunamis may have penetrated more than 100 kilometers inland before the backwash swept continental debris back into the Gulf of Mexico, where it was deposited in seafloor channels. Both the initial waves and the resulting backwash deeply eroded the seafloor to depths of several hundred meters. The impact also generated a seismic pulse roughly equivalent to a magnitude 10 earthquake. That seismic activity caused huge landslides on the seafloor, ripping through any colonies of life.

Impact-generated Tsunamis

Evidence of many of these processes is found in the rock record around the Gulf of Mexico. Chicxulub-generated tsunami deposits exist, for example, along the Brazos River of Texas.

Another classic location is Arroyo el Mimbral in Mexico, where the boundary sediments are several meters thick, and very complex, because of their proximity to the Chicxulub crater. The lower portion of the sequence is composed of altered impact melt spherules. Above the spherules is sand that contains abundant plant debris. The plant debris is out of place, because the site was far offshore at the time of impact and is composed of seafloor sediments deposited beneath ~500 meters of water. Thus, the plant debris seems to be material carried seaward by the backwash of a tsunami. Water within the Gulf of Mexico was also sloshing back and forth, just like water in a bathtub, which stirred seafloor sands to-and-fro in alternating directions.

Plant Debris in a Tsunami Backwash Deposit at the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) Boundary

The story of how the gulf coast of Mexico was affected is based on the work of a large number of geologists, but the work of Jan Smit and his colleagues has been particularly insightful. A good introduction to the geologic details is a review paper by Smit (1999, Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Science 27, 75-113). Another key resource is a guidebook to several key K-T boundary locations in northeastern Mexico that is available as part of LPI's Contribution Series.

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The Chicxulub impact event was an ~100 million megaton blast that devastated the Gulf of Mexico region. The blast generated a core of superheated plasma in excess of 10,000 degrees. Although that thermal pulse would have been relatively short-lived, a handful of minutes, it would have been lethal for nearby life.