{"id":37,"date":"2009-05-12T22:27:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T03:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secure.nssl.noaa.gov\/v2talk\/2009\/05\/51209-storms-comin\/"},"modified":"2014-09-02T12:17:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T18:17:01","slug":"51209-storms-comin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/2009\/05\/51209-storms-comin\/","title":{"rendered":"5.12.09 &#8220;Storms comin?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_50\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-50\" title=\"img_0085\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/05\/img_0085-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"A resident of the town of Silverton, Texas has survived three tornadoes\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A resident of the town of Silverton, Texas has survived three tornadoes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Are storms comin dearie?&#8221;\u00a0 A fleet of mobile radars and instruments parked at the truck stop in a small town can draw a lot of attention.\u00a0 Locals are not afraid to ask what we are doing, and most have stories to offer.\u00a0 Many ask us to take the storms with us when we leave!\u00a0 Today we saw lots of microbursts &#8211; the blasts of air from the thunderstorm to the surface kicked up dust and precip that caused downed powerlines in one town nearby.\u00a0 We followed the SMART-R today and watched as it made scans of several different storms.\u00a0 On our way back to our host town we saw rainbows, the sunset, and an incredible lightning storm.\u00a0 Though we didn&#8217;t have the type of storm we wanted today, tomorrow looks better.\u00a0 It would really be great if we could all get to Missouri\/Illinois in 15 hours and have it be flat there too! &#8211; Susan Cobb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Are storms comin dearie?&#8221;\u00a0 A fleet of mobile radars and instruments parked at the truck stop in a small town can draw a lot of attention.\u00a0 Locals are not afraid&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/2009\/05\/51209-storms-comin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":50,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","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\/37","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=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}