{"id":100,"date":"2016-03-20T13:46:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T18:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortexse\/?p=100"},"modified":"2016-03-20T13:46:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T18:46:29","slug":"status-20-mar-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortexse\/2016\/03\/status-20-mar-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"STATUS: 20 Mar 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STATUS: IOP Watch<\/p>\n<p>Most numerical guidance still points to a frontal passage on Thur 24 March through northern AL, with some disagreement about the time of day.\u00a0 Shear and CAPE should be increasing through Wednesday night and early morning Thur ahead of this event.\u00a0 Convection is nearly certain owing to strong lift.<\/p>\n<p>At this time, low-level moisture looks like it will be sufficient for perhaps ~300 J\/kg CAPE, and this is close to the climatological threshold for QLCS tornadoes in AL.<\/p>\n<p>A final IOP go\/no-go decision will be made at the 1 PM briefing tomorrow (Mon 21st).\u00a0 For those thinking about travel plans, we will want to be observing by the early morning hours of Thur 24 March.\u00a0 We will have to conjure a plan starting at the Wednesday briefing, and perhaps also later via SASSI chat\/GeoWhiteboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STATUS: IOP Watch Most numerical guidance still points to a frontal passage on Thur 24 March through northern AL, with some disagreement about the time of day.\u00a0 Shear and CAPE&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortexse\/2016\/03\/status-20-mar-2016\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortexse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortexse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortexse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortexse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortexse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortexse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortexse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortexse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortexse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortexse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}