{"id":19737,"date":"2023-06-13T22:05:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T03:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/?p=19737"},"modified":"2023-06-13T22:05:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T03:05:08","slug":"assessing-lightningcast-in-ongoing-convection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2023\/06\/13\/assessing-lightningcast-in-ongoing-convection\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing LightningCast in Ongoing Convection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the Tallahassee CWA, convection was ongoing at about 21z over the western portions of the Florida Panhandle.\u00a0 In order to get a quick assessment of the convective trends, loading up LightningCast with ProbSevere and MRMS radar is a good start. A loop is provided in Figure 1 below.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19738\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/06\/LC_TAE_Podium.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"724\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Figure 1: Loop of MRMS reflectivity overlaid with LightningCast and ProbSevere.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I noticed in southeast Alabama into southwest Georgia that LightningCast was teetering back and forth between the 50 and 75 percentile contours.\u00a0 LightningCast even went down to the 25% contour for a brief stint at 2041z.\u00a0 Looking at NLTN data, there was certainly plenty of lightning left within that storm, so I couldn\u2019t quite understand why it went down but then pulsed back up. The other issue I ran into is the contours suggesting lightning, but convection is nowhere near the 75% contour (See Figure 2).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19739\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/06\/TAE_HWTBlog-Post_Podium.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/06\/TAE_HWTBlog-Post_Podium.png 624w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/06\/TAE_HWTBlog-Post_Podium-600x271.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Figure 2: 2041z LightningCast with ProbSevere and NTLN lightning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">-Podium\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Tallahassee CWA, convection was ongoing at about 21z over the western portions of the Florida Panhandle.\u00a0 In order to get a quick assessment of the convective trends, loading&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2023\/06\/13\/assessing-lightningcast-in-ongoing-convection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-probsevere","category-spg2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19737","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\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19740,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19737\/revisions\/19740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}