{"id":10946,"date":"2015-05-13T15:51:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T20:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hwt.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/internal\/blog\/?p=10946"},"modified":"2016-10-03T17:54:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T22:54:16","slug":"misleading-lightning-jumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2015\/05\/13\/misleading-lightning-jumps\/","title":{"rendered":"Misleading Lightning Jumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ENI lightning data has been useful at times today.\u00a0 However, when monitoring lightning jumps all forecasters must exercise caution. The charts can be misleading when tracking cells. Watching the last hour of data in SJT, one can see lightning cells converge, causing a tremendous spike in lightning strikes.\u00a0 This could lead a forecaster to believe the storm is strengthening, when in fact data is being absorbed. A forecaster must use different tools and further investigate to ensure lightning jumps are indeed really happening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Panel 1 shows a lightning jump.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/051315-lightning-jump-2042.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10952\" src=\"http:\/\/hwt.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/internal\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/051315-lightning-jump-2042-300x159.png\" alt=\"051315 lightning jump 2042\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/051315-lightning-jump-2042-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/051315-lightning-jump-2042-768x406.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/051315-lightning-jump-2042-1024x541.png 1024w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/051315-lightning-jump-2042-500x264.png 500w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/051315-lightning-jump-2042.png 1612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This image shows how two different cells later converged according to ENI leading to an unwarranted lightning jump.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/051315-eni-cell-absorbtion.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10955\" src=\"http:\/\/hwt.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/internal\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/051315-eni-cell-absorbtion-300x159.png\" alt=\"051315 eni cell absorbtion\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/051315-eni-cell-absorbtion-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/051315-eni-cell-absorbtion-768x406.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/051315-eni-cell-absorbtion-1024x542.png 1024w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/051315-eni-cell-absorbtion-500x265.png 500w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/051315-eni-cell-absorbtion.png 1614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UFFSU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENI lightning data has been useful at times today.\u00a0 However, when monitoring lightning jumps all forecasters must exercise caution. The charts can be misleading when tracking cells. Watching the last&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2015\/05\/13\/misleading-lightning-jumps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14028,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10946\/revisions\/14028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}