{"id":17244,"date":"2019-05-20T14:30:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T19:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/?p=17244"},"modified":"2019-05-20T14:38:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T19:38:59","slug":"using-all-sky-lap-to-identify-areas-of-destabilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2019\/05\/20\/using-all-sky-lap-to-identify-areas-of-destabilization\/","title":{"rendered":"Using All-Sky LAP to Identify Areas of Destabilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rapid destabilization is occurring over portions of northwest Texas and southwest Oklahoma. This can be seen in the all-sky LAP CAPE product:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17251\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/lapCAPE18z20May.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1874\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking at a four-panel image of all-sky LAP precipitable water for the entire layer, as well as the surface to 0.9 sigma, 0.9-0.7 sigma, and 0.7-0.3 sigma levels, we can see why this is the case. The top-right image shows low-level moistening in the surface to 0.9 sigma layer, which is confirmed by surface observations showing dewpoints rising from the low-60s to the low-70s over the course of 6 hours. Meanwhile, the bottom right image shows midlevel drying associated with steeper midlevel lapse rates advecting into the region.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17252\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/lapPWAT18z20May.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1872\" height=\"850\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ron Dayne<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapid destabilization is occurring over portions of northwest Texas and southwest Oklahoma. This can be seen in the all-sky LAP CAPE product: Looking at a four-panel image of all-sky LAP&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2019\/05\/20\/using-all-sky-lap-to-identify-areas-of-destabilization\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":332,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,51],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-17244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goesr","category-hwt","tag-all-sky-lap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17244","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\/332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17253,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17244\/revisions\/17253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}