{"id":3995,"date":"2012-05-16T17:44:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T22:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hwt.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/internal\/blog\/?p=3995"},"modified":"2012-05-16T17:44:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T22:44:33","slug":"convective-initiation-verified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2012\/05\/16\/convective-initiation-verified\/","title":{"rendered":"Convective Initiation &#8211; Verified!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This series of images shows an ideal case of the CI product detecting a rapid development of storms along a cold front in northeast Arkansas.\u00a0 The first image shows a strong CI signal (red) at 19:10.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2012\/05\/CI-vis-1-d3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3996\" title=\"CI vis 1 d3\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2012\/05\/CI-vis-1-d3-e1337207729627-1024x603.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second image shows the same area about 10 minutes later at 19:25.\u00a0 The weird tooth-shaped object is the Cloud Top Cooling rate and this indicated -16 deg\/15 min.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2012\/05\/CI-to-CTC-D3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3997\" title=\"CI to CTC D3\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2012\/05\/CI-to-CTC-D3-e1337207907483-1024x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, at 21:25, about two hours later, the visible imagery showed a developing storm with an overshooting top.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2012\/05\/vis-verify-D3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3998\" title=\"vis verify D3\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2012\/05\/vis-verify-D3-e1337208252840-1024x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This series of images shows an ideal case of the CI product detecting a rapid development of storms along a cold front in northeast Arkansas.\u00a0 The first image shows a&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2012\/05\/16\/convective-initiation-verified\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[24,26],"class_list":["post-3995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-blogs","tag-goesr-cloud-top-cooling","tag-goesr-satcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995","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\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}