{"id":14244,"date":"2018-04-17T11:16:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T15:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=14244"},"modified":"2018-04-17T11:16:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T15:16:25","slug":"yes-tornadoes-can-hit-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/04\/yes-tornadoes-can-hit-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, tornadoes can hit cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a persistent myth out there that tornadoes cannot hit certain geographical features like mountains, rivers or cities. However, there is ample evidence that this is false. I have seen a number of cases of cities being hit by tornadoes, including Dallas, Oklahoma City, Birmingham, and Atlanta. This week we had another example in North Carolina when Greensboro was hit by a tornado in the latest round of severe weather. There is a good discussion of the myth by Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA in <em>Forbes.com<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marshallshepherd\/2018\/04\/17\/the-science-of-why-tornadoes-miss-cities-or-do-they\/#5dcc8482321c\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/huntsville-tornado-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9110\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/huntsville-tornado-1-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/huntsville-tornado-1-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/huntsville-tornado-1-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/huntsville-tornado-1-204x138.jpg 204w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/huntsville-tornado-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a persistent myth out there that tornadoes cannot hit certain geographical features like mountains, rivers or cities. However, there is ample evidence that this is false. I have seen a number of cases of cities being hit by tornadoes, including Dallas, Oklahoma City, Birmingham, and Atlanta. This week we had another example in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":9110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-severe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14244","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=14244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14245,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14244\/revisions\/14245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}