{"id":4489,"date":"2012-05-24T15:32:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T20:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hwt.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/internal\/blog\/?p=4489"},"modified":"2012-05-24T15:32:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T20:32:51","slug":"wfo-mlb-cictc-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2012\/05\/24\/wfo-mlb-cictc-example\/","title":{"rendered":"WFO MLB-CI\/CTC Example"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an example of how UAH Convective Initiation (CI) and CIMSS Cloud Top Cooling (CTC) can be used to anticipate convective development.\u00a0 Here in the first image at 1940Z, let&#8217;s look at the CI product in the top left panel:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4491\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4491\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2012\/05\/THU-MLB-CI1940Z.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4491\" title=\"THU-MLB-CI1940Z\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2012\/05\/THU-MLB-CI1940Z-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CI (top left panel) at 1940Z.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Focus on the Lake\/Marion\/Sumter County line.\u00a0 There is a maximum in CI there of 80, indicating likely convective development.\u00a0 If we look at the CTC in the same area on the next image (top right panel), we see a developing max CTC over -20C\/15min, which is a strong indicator of a developing severe thunderstorm.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4494\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4494\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2012\/05\/THU-MLB-CTC1945Z.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4494\" title=\"THU-MLB-CTC1945Z\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2012\/05\/THU-MLB-CTC1945Z-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1945Z CTC (top right panel).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Although this did not ultimately become a severe thunderstorm, we did observe a few lightning strikes shortly after this time.\u00a0 This progression from strong CI signal to strong CTC can be a good indicator of a developing thunderstorm.&#8211;Gordon Strassberg for WFO MLB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an example of how UAH Convective Initiation (CI) and CIMSS Cloud Top Cooling (CTC) can be used to anticipate convective development.\u00a0 Here in the first image at 1940Z,&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2012\/05\/24\/wfo-mlb-cictc-example\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":333,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-4489","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\/4489","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\/333"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}