{"id":9109,"date":"2016-11-15T08:12:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T13:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=9109"},"modified":"2016-11-15T08:12:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T13:12:05","slug":"anniversary-of-the-huntsville-al-tornado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/11\/anniversary-of-the-huntsville-al-tornado\/","title":{"rendered":"Anniversary of the Huntsville AL tornado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From my husband John Knox (also a meteorologist) who grew up in Birmingham AL, in a recent Facebook post, including photos from AL.com:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;27 years ago Tuesday, a terrible tornado in Huntsville, Alabama. November is the time of a secondary peak in tornado activity in the Southeast, climatologically speaking. This is because the ingredients for tornadoes&#8211;including lift from fronts, and vertical wind shear from the jet stream overhead&#8211;are present. But that&#8217;s climatology. This November, the jet stream is in Canada, not over Alabama, and the fronts that do come through Alabama are dry, thanks in part to the severe-to-exceptional drought in much of Alabama. It was a different time. Many of the fatalities were in vehicles&#8211;the tornado hit clogged roads during rush hour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.al.com\/alphotos\/4558\/gallery\/nov15_1989_huntsville_airport_\/index.html#\/9\">https:\/\/photos.al.com\/alphotos\/4558\/gallery\/nov15_1989_huntsville_airport_\/index.html#\/9<\/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=\"huntsville-tornado-1\" 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>From my husband John Knox (also a meteorologist) who grew up in Birmingham AL, in a recent Facebook post, including photos from AL.com: &#8220;27 years ago Tuesday, a terrible tornado in Huntsville, Alabama. November is the time of a secondary peak in tornado activity in the Southeast, climatologically speaking. This is because the ingredients for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":9110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-interesting-weather-images","category-severe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9109","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=9109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9111,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9109\/revisions\/9111"}],"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=9109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}