{"id":103,"date":"2016-03-21T13:38:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T18:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortexse\/?p=103"},"modified":"2016-03-21T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T18:55:00","slug":"status-21-mar-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortexse\/2016\/03\/status-21-mar-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"STATUS: 21 Mar 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STATUS: IOP<\/p>\n<p>We will be conducting an IOP on Thursday, 24 March. \u00a0We anticipate fairly strong forcing associated with a mid-level wave, strong shear (850 flow approaching 50 kt), and CAPE in the range of 300-600 J\/kg. \u00a0The expected structure will be a QLCS or a QLCS with embedded supercell structures.<\/p>\n<p>Observations will possibly commence in the pre-dawn hours of Thursday, and terminate on Thursday afternoon. \u00a0CAPE and shear are expected to grow strongly during a 6-h period prior to passage of the convective line.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the observing plan will depend on the expected time of passage of the convective line, and we await two more days of computer guidance to formulate that plan. \u00a0The plan will be discussed more at the Tuesday and Wednesday briefings, and in an evening planning session on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>PI&#8217;s are reminded to keep the instrument status spreadsheet updated!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STATUS: IOP We will be conducting an IOP on Thursday, 24 March. \u00a0We anticipate fairly strong forcing associated with a mid-level wave, strong shear (850 flow approaching 50 kt), and&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortexse\/2016\/03\/status-21-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-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortexse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","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=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortexse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortexse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortexse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortexse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortexse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}