{"id":6303,"date":"2016-03-04T17:32:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T22:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6303"},"modified":"2016-03-04T17:32:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T22:32:38","slug":"project-vortex-se-began-march-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/03\/project-vortex-se-began-march-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Project VORTEX-SE began March 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tornado intercept and study program called VORTEX-SE started March 1. \u00a0This field project,\u00a0Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment-Southeast, will send scientists out across the Southeast on days that are likely to have severe weather to study the development and evolution of tornadic supercell storms as systems move through the region. \u00a0The goal is to improve the understanding of how tornadoes form and cycle through their life cycle in the difficult terrain of the Southeast, which is much hillier than previous VORTEX experiments, which were undertaken in the central Plains. \u00a0You can read more about it at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thestormreport.com\/2016\/03\/vortex-se-to-begin-operations-today\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/thestormreport.com\/2016\/03\/vortex-se-to-begin-operations-today\/<\/a> or in my previous blog post.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6304\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6304\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/April-27-Rotation-Tracks-Eastern-US-800-768x438.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6304\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6304\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/April-27-Rotation-Tracks-Eastern-US-800-768x438-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"April 27, 2011 tornado tracks.  Source: NOAA NSSL\/Google Earth\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/April-27-Rotation-Tracks-Eastern-US-800-768x438-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/April-27-Rotation-Tracks-Eastern-US-800-768x438.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/April-27-Rotation-Tracks-Eastern-US-800-768x438-242x138.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">April 27, 2011 tornado tracks. Source: NOAA NSSL\/Google Earth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tornado intercept and study program called VORTEX-SE started March 1. \u00a0This field project,\u00a0Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment-Southeast, will send scientists out across the Southeast on days that are likely to have severe weather to study the development and evolution of tornadic supercell storms as systems move through the region. \u00a0The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-events","category-severe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303","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=6303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6305,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303\/revisions\/6305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}