{"id":115,"date":"2010-05-12T09:50:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T14:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secure.nssl.noaa.gov\/v2talk\/?p=115"},"modified":"2014-09-02T12:16:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T18:16:13","slug":"5-11-10-taloga-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/2010\/05\/5-11-10-taloga-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"5.11.10 Taloga, Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2010\/05\/IMG_3964.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-116\" title=\"IMG_3964\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2010\/05\/IMG_3964-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Weather balloon launch on May 11, 2010\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2010\/05\/IMG_3964-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2010\/05\/IMG_3964-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2010\/05\/IMG_3964-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><\/a>V2 teams were subdued as they gathered this morning.\u00a0 No one likes to see tornadoes affect people, but we know they do.\u00a0 These tornadoes hit close to home for many of us.\u00a0 Even folks at the National Weather Center in Norman could see the tornado develop from the observation deck and saw it touch down to the east.<\/p>\n<p>The morning briefing was held at the one hotel that did have electricity.\u00a0 Today&#8217;s goal was to move out of the hotels in Shawnee to make room for those affected by the storms who needed the rooms.\u00a0 The second goal was to meet in Clinton, Oklahoma.\u00a0 A warm front was hanging over the state with a dryline to the west.\u00a0 The area was boasting\u00a0 Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) of 5000 Joules\/Kilogram!\u00a0 That is A LOT of energy!\u00a0 Last year we were excited about a CAPE of 500.\u00a0 Or really ANY CAPE.<\/p>\n<p>We arrived in Clinton, and waited.\u00a0 Today we followed the sounding teams.\u00a0 The launched weather balloons to sample the environment ahead of and around the storm.\u00a0 They have their routine perfected, and it was fun to watch.<\/p>\n<p>As the day went on, we drifted south to near Cordell, Oklahoma.\u00a0 A cell was popping to the southwest.\u00a0 It was small, but grew quickly.\u00a0 A balloon was launched ahead of the storm.\u00a0 We watched as the storm moved past, and then fizzled.<\/p>\n<p>The atmosphere still seemed like it could give us a supercell.\u00a0 We moved back north of Clinton.\u00a0 In the distance along the warm front we could see more cells firing.\u00a0 The radars set up and scanned.<\/p>\n<p>The storm had 2.5&#8243; hail, and had radar indicated rotation.\u00a0 Tornado warning issued, and mobile mesonets reported a low circulation, but no tornado.\u00a0 The radars scanned until after dark, but at sunset, the balloon launches were done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We gathered in Clinton, Oklahoma.  A warm front was hanging over teh state with a dryline to the west.  The area was boasting a CAPE of 5000 J\/kg!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-v2talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}