{"id":200,"date":"2013-05-16T18:05:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T18:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/?p=200"},"modified":"2015-04-10T22:57:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T22:57:50","slug":"sobering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/2013\/05\/sobering\/","title":{"rendered":"Sobering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So that &#8216;marginal&#8217;, 2% chance of tornado risk I was talking about yesterday turned into a group of cells that dropped down 10 tornadoes over central Texas, sadly resulting in the death of at least 6 people. It&#8217;s a real wake-up call, and goes to show just how much unpredictability there is in storm forecasting, even only 12 hours ahead of a potential severe weather outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Its a world away from our experience. Beautiful sunny skies and rolling hills as we head West from Chadron towards Valentine, Nebraska. I&#8217;m actually pretty glad we didn&#8217;t try to chase Texas yesterday. We we nowhere near ready, and to be thrust into storm systems that dropped a mile-wilde EF4 tornado could have been a baptism of fire way beyond what I would have been expecting.<\/p>\n<p>Today we are chasing a very marginal setup in north-central Nebraska\/South Dakota that looks unlikely to drop any substantial tornadoes but there is a small chance we could see some organised cells or weak Supercell storms. We&#8217;re really killing two birds with one stone, chasing a marginal setup while also getting into better position further east for the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So that &#8216;marginal&#8217;, 2% chance of tornado risk I was talking about yesterday turned into a group of cells that dropped down 10 tornadoes over central Texas, sadly resulting in the death of at least 6 people. It&#8217;s a real wake-up call, and goes to show just how much unpredictability there is in storm forecasting, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","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\/200","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=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}