{"id":685,"date":"2009-05-20T17:47:19","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T22:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hwt.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/internal\/blog\/?p=685"},"modified":"2009-05-20T17:47:19","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T22:47:19","slug":"iop-issuing-warnings-for-hail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2009\/05\/20\/iop-issuing-warnings-for-hail\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Blog &#8211; 20 May 2009 (5:47 pm) &#8211; IOP &#8211; issuing warnings for hail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both teams have been issuing warnings for hail in far northwest Nebraska. \u00a0These storms appeared to be in the best environment, taking advantage of moderate mid level flow seen on the Medicine Bow profiler, and somewhat backed northeasterly surface flow just north of the slow moving cold front. \u00a0Forecasters have been using the Max Estimated Hail Size (MESH) product, which reached near 1.75 inch. \u00a0They have also been very interested in reflectivity at the 0 and -20 degree C level. \u00a0They have looked at echo tops products, but mostly for completeness. \u00a0The echo tops have not influenced warning decisions.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Patrick Burke (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 18-22 May 2009)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both teams have been issuing warnings for hail in far northwest Nebraska. \u00a0These storms appeared to be in the best environment, taking advantage of moderate mid level flow seen on&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2009\/05\/20\/iop-issuing-warnings-for-hail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","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\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}