{"id":10493,"date":"2017-03-22T15:28:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T19:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10493"},"modified":"2017-03-22T15:28:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T19:28:47","slug":"second-year-of-vortex-southeast-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/03\/second-year-of-vortex-southeast-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Second year of VORTEX-Southeast begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Project VORTEX studied tornadoes in the Southeast last year after several previous projects looked at tornadoes in the central part of the United States. \u00a0They started a second year of research on March 8 and it will go until May 8. \u00a0So on severe weather days you may see convoys of radar trucks and chase vehicles moving through the area. \u00a0Of course, we&#8217;ve already had two big outbreaks this year, but those occurred in January, too early for the VORTEX crowd to study. \u00a0They are particularly interested in seeing how severe weather and tornadoes interact with terrain, as opposed to the dynamics in open plains they have studied in previous years. \u00a0You can read more about the project at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/whnt.com\/2017\/03\/20\/second-year-of-vortex-southeast-tornado-research-kicks-off-in-the-tennessee-valley\/\">https:\/\/whnt.com\/2017\/03\/20\/second-year-of-vortex-southeast-tornado-research-kicks-off-in-the-tennessee-valley\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2757\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2757\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/vortex2-radar-truck-and-tornado-nssl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2757\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/vortex2-radar-truck-and-tornado-nssl-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/vortex2-radar-truck-and-tornado-nssl-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/vortex2-radar-truck-and-tornado-nssl-185x138.jpg 185w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/vortex2-radar-truck-and-tornado-nssl.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: National Severe Storms Lab, NOAA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project VORTEX studied tornadoes in the Southeast last year after several previous projects looked at tornadoes in the central part of the United States. \u00a0They started a second year of research on March 8 and it will go until May 8. \u00a0So on severe weather days you may see convoys of radar trucks and chase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-severe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10494,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10493\/revisions\/10494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}