{"id":1162,"date":"2019-05-20T14:42:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T14:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:33:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:33:44","slug":"20-may-2019-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/2019\/05\/20-may-2019-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"20 May 2019: Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><div id=\"tsmap_1\"  style=\"width: 100%; height: 480px; max-width: 100%\"><\/div><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>live map<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thankfully for everyone concerned, the feared strong tornado outbreak didn&#8217;t occur. It was looking pretty scary for a while, but the thick low cloud prevented the level of surface heating required to ignite the atmosphere. However, plenty of storms still formed and we had a fun chase down in Texas, got near a couple of tornadic circulations, and experienced some of the most terrifying lightning I think I&#8217;ve ever seen and subsequently getting swallowed by crazy amounts of rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today could be a really bad day for Oklahoma. The National Weather Service are not mincing their words. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;A serious outbreak of destructive, tornadic supercells is likely over parts of this region this afternoon into evening, especially in the high- and moderate-risk areas.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is not really the kind of day you want to see as a chaser. Yes you want to witness storms and tornadoes, but an outbreak of this scale presents a real risk to the people of Oklahoma. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It means a very different kind of day for us. We plan to keep away from the towns, and out in open country and will be giving any storm that forms a healthy dose of respect and make sure our escape routes are clear if we should ever need them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"545\" src=\"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1905201300-day1otlk_1300.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1164\"\/><figcaption>This is about as bad as it can get<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>live map Thankfully for everyone concerned, the feared strong tornado outbreak didn&#8217;t occur. It was looking pretty scary for a while, but the thick low cloud prevented the level of surface heating required to ignite the atmosphere. However, plenty of storms still formed and we had a fun chase down in Texas, got near a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}