{"id":20140,"date":"2024-04-17T16:05:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T21:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/?p=20140"},"modified":"2024-04-17T16:05:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T21:05:50","slug":"strange-torp-object-location-near-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2024\/04\/17\/strange-torp-object-location-near-radar\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange TORP Object Location Near Radar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found a questionable TORP object while skimming through a case this afternoon. A few broken lines of convection are approaching the KAKQ radar on an early February morning. I had yet to see many TORP objects as the case is a bit of a slow start, but suddenly noticed this pop up centering on the west side of an oncoming line.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20150\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20150\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20150\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/04\/KAKQ-TORP-Object-Cars-900x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/04\/KAKQ-TORP-Object-Cars-900x500.png 900w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/04\/KAKQ-TORP-Object-Cars-1800x1001.png 1800w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/04\/KAKQ-TORP-Object-Cars-768x427.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/04\/KAKQ-TORP-Object-Cars-1536x854.png 1536w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/04\/KAKQ-TORP-Object-Cars-600x334.png 600w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/04\/KAKQ-TORP-Object-Cars.png 1856w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indication of TORP on the west side of the convective line suspiciously pinging along I-85.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I found this strange, as I not would expect AzShear values to hug that close to the west side of a line. So I went to investigate with reflectivity and velocity data and didn&#8217;t find anything I was impressed with.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20148\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20148\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20148\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/04\/KAKQ_Line_1309-900x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/04\/KAKQ_Line_1309-900x500.png 900w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/04\/KAKQ_Line_1309-1800x999.png 1800w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/04\/KAKQ_Line_1309-768x426.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/04\/KAKQ_Line_1309-1536x853.png 1536w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/04\/KAKQ_Line_1309-600x333.png 600w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/04\/KAKQ_Line_1309.png 2034w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A normal looking convective line approaches KAKQ.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What I did see, is that the TORP object is centered about a section of I-85 in a section of fairly low reflectivity. In my home office, we&#8217;ve seen cars and boats via radar and this could be a similar event, but with a convective line in the way there&#8217;s no real way to be sure.<\/p>\n<p>-Wx Warlock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found a questionable TORP object while skimming through a case this afternoon. A few broken lines of convection are approaching the KAKQ radar on an early February morning. I had&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2024\/04\/17\/strange-torp-object-location-near-radar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-azshear","category-hwt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20140","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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20166,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20140\/revisions\/20166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}