{"id":17133,"date":"2019-05-16T16:51:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T21:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/?p=17133"},"modified":"2019-05-16T18:13:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T23:13:39","slug":"azshear-the-good-and-the-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2019\/05\/16\/azshear-the-good-and-the-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"AzShear: The Good and the Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Low Level AzShear (0-2km) correctly identified an area of rotation associated with the western supercell, however, AzShear was also saturated above 0.01 along the leading edge of the bow echo in the MCS as well. While it&#8217;s good to drawn attention to the latter area, as it was producing severe wind (61kts), it was not tornadic.\u00a0 Additionally, there is some noise in the merged LL AzShear that wouldn&#8217;t exist in the single radar AzShear. I believe single radar AzShear would perform better in this situation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17134\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17134\" style=\"width: 1522px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17134\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/AzShearGoodandBad.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1522\" height=\"850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/AzShearGoodandBad.png 1522w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/AzShearGoodandBad-900x503.png 900w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/AzShearGoodandBad-768x429.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/AzShearGoodandBad-600x335.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clockwise from Top Left: KIND 0.5 Ref, 0.5 SRM, 0.5 Vel, Low Level Az Shear (0-2km)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>-Tempest Sooner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low Level AzShear (0-2km) correctly identified an area of rotation associated with the western supercell, however, AzShear was also saturated above 0.01 along the leading edge of the bow echo&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2019\/05\/16\/azshear-the-good-and-the-bad\/\" 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":[44],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-17133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-azshear","tag-azshear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17133","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=17133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17141,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17133\/revisions\/17141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}