{"id":17157,"date":"2019-05-16T17:41:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T22:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/?p=17157"},"modified":"2019-05-16T18:15:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T23:15:44","slug":"were-there-indications-there-could-be-large-hail-in-eastern-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2019\/05\/16\/were-there-indications-there-could-be-large-hail-in-eastern-il\/","title":{"rendered":"Were there indications there could be large hail in eastern IL?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Short answer: Yep.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17164\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17164\" style=\"width: 757px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17164\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/ChampaignUrbana_NUCAPSModifiedSounding2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"757\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/ChampaignUrbana_NUCAPSModifiedSounding2.png 757w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/ChampaignUrbana_NUCAPSModifiedSounding2-600x534.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NUCAPS Modified Sounding near Champaign\/Urbana, IL from 18Z pass.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since there were no 18-19Z special soundings from the IL\/IN area, I looked to the AllSkyLAP CAPE which was only getting GFS retrievals in the ILX area. Those values were around 2300 J\/KG or so.\u00a0 The NUCAPS modified sounding near Champaign\/Urbana, IL (shown above; the closest green dot to the storm that produced the severe hail), suggested more than 3500 J\/KG of MLCAPE. Yesterday&#8217;s NUCAPS soundings suggested that the NUCAPS CAPE values were a bit high, but the ProbSevere MLCAPE values at the time of the baseball size hail in Westville (2105Z) were near 2773 J\/KG.\u00a0 So, yes, plenty of sources suggested high CAPE and thus there could be large hail in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Also of note: The operational GOES 16 CAPE did not show any values because of clouds across the area.<\/p>\n<p>-Tempest Sooner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short answer: Yep. Since there were no 18-19Z special soundings from the IL\/IN area, I looked to the AllSkyLAP CAPE which was only getting GFS retrievals in the ILX area.&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2019\/05\/16\/were-there-indications-there-could-be-large-hail-in-eastern-il\/\" 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":[68],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-17157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nucaps","tag-nucaps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17157","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=17157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17172,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17157\/revisions\/17172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}