{"id":4435,"date":"2012-05-23T19:47:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T00:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hwt.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/internal\/blog\/?p=4435"},"modified":"2012-05-23T19:47:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T00:47:14","slug":"wfo-oax-finally-a-ctc-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2012\/05\/23\/wfo-oax-finally-a-ctc-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"WFO OAX-Finally, a CTC Fail!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No computer-based algorithm is perfect, right?\u00a0 We had a failure of the Cloud Top Cooling (CTC).\u00a0 Here is a CTC image from 2345Z, in the top right panel:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4436\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4436\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2012\/05\/WED-OMA-2345CTC.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4436\" title=\"WED-OMA-2345CTC\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2012\/05\/WED-OMA-2345CTC-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cloud Top Cooling (CTC).  Values in York County, NE are over -30C\/15min.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The developing storm over York County has values over -30C\/15min, which is usually a strong indicator of a developing severe thunderstorm.\u00a0 As this storm developed and approached Seward County from WFO GID, a warning was issued based on CTC.\u00a0 Maximum Expected Size of Hail (MESH) was 0.87&#8243; and increasing.\u00a0 However, as the storm entered Seward County, it weakened.\u00a0 No severe reports were received, and the MESH dropped pretty rapidly.\u00a0 Here is an image as the storm entered the CWA:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4439\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4439\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2012\/05\/WED-OMA-0018RADARWARN.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4439\" title=\"WED-OMA-0018RADARWARN\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2012\/05\/WED-OMA-0018RADARWARN-1024x549.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">0018Z KOAX 0.5 degree Base Reflectivity image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The moral of the story?\u00a0 You can&#8217;t win &#8217;em all, CTC!&#8211;Gordon Strassberg for WFO OAX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No computer-based algorithm is perfect, right?\u00a0 We had a failure of the Cloud Top Cooling (CTC).\u00a0 Here is a CTC image from 2345Z, in the top right panel: The developing&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2012\/05\/23\/wfo-oax-finally-a-ctc-fail\/\" 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],"class_list":["post-4435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-blogs","tag-goesr-cloud-top-cooling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435","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=4435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}