{"id":106,"date":"2015-11-04T18:35:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T23:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2015-11-04T18:37:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T23:37:03","slug":"the-all-star-soundings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/the-all-star-soundings\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;All-Star Soundings&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the highlights of my undergraduate synoptic meteorology course at Oklahoma was the first three weeks &#8212; the &#8220;all-star soundings,&#8221; our individual presentations of notable weather events which had classic signatures on the Skew-T diagram.\u00a0 Dr. Kenneth Crawford was one of the best teachers I ever had, and I loved this part of his course so much that I&#8217;ve kept the name and tried to carry on the tradition.<\/p>\n<p>This post is simply a way for me to keep track of all the events I&#8217;ve collected on my &#8220;all-star&#8221; list.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll come back and add more as I find them, as people suggest them, etc.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t hesitate to submit your own: by sharing this list publicly I want to make it more of a community effort.\u00a0 Ideally, while the events from pre-2005-ish are good, there is much more data available online for those that are more recent; I&#8217;m most interested in those.<\/p>\n<p>As of right now, the entries don&#8217;t have a common format&#8211;I&#8217;ll change that later.\u00a0 I might even add links.\u00a0 They are sorted only by date and season, the way it was when I was a student.\u00a0 Old habits die hard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cool Season Soundings<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IAD 12 UTC 03\/13\/1993 &#8211; &#8220;Storm of the Century&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>HAT 12 UTC 03\/13\/1993 &#8211; &#8220;Storm of the Century&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>BNA 12 UTC 03\/13\/1993 &#8211; &#8220;Storm of the Century&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>INL 12 UTC 02\/02\/1996 &#8211; Arctic Air Outbreak<\/li>\n<li>LCH 00Z 01\/13\/1997 &#8211; Ice Storm<\/li>\n<li>WMW 00 UTC 01\/06\/1998 &#8211; Ice Storm<\/li>\n<li>Buffalo &#8211; Lake Effect Snow Christmas 2001<\/li>\n<li>CRP 12 UTC 12\/25\/2004 White Christmas in South Texas<\/li>\n<li>JAN 15 UTC 12\/11\/2008 &#8211; Deep South Snow\/Heavy Rain<\/li>\n<li>OKX 00 UTC 12\/27\/2010 &#8211; NY Blizzard with Thundersnow<\/li>\n<li>DNR 12 UTC 12\/22\/2011 &#8211; Upslope Snow<\/li>\n<li>January 2014 &#8211; the &#8220;Polar Vortex&#8221; Cold Air Outbreak<\/li>\n<li>February 2014 Southeast Ice Storm<\/li>\n<li>Buffalo Record Lake Effect Snow &#8211; November 2014<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Warm Season Soundings<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CKL 12 UTC 03\/27\/1994 &#8211; Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak<\/li>\n<li>TOP 00 UTC 04\/11\/2001 &#8211; Hailstorm<\/li>\n<li>LIX 06 UTC 08\/29\/2005 &#8211; Hurricane Katrina<\/li>\n<li>JAX 00 UTC 08\/22\/2008 &#8211; Tropical Storm Fay<\/li>\n<li>LCH 12 UTC 09\/13\/2008 &#8211; Hurricane Ike<\/li>\n<li>JAN 18 UTC 04\/24\/2010 &#8211; Yazoo City, MS Tornado<\/li>\n<li>BMX 18 UTC 04\/27\/2011 &#8211; April Tornado Outbreak<\/li>\n<li>SGF 00 UTC 05\/23\/2011 &#8211; Joplin Tornado<\/li>\n<li>ILN 00 UTC 05\/26\/2011 &#8211; Indiana Tornadoes<\/li>\n<li>ILX 00 UTC 07\/12\/2011 &#8211; Derecho<\/li>\n<li>Hurricane Irene &#8211; August 2011<\/li>\n<li>High Risk \/ Ohio Valley Tornado Outbreak &#8211; March 2012<\/li>\n<li>OUN 00 UTC 08\/04\/12 &#8211; Plains Heat Wave<\/li>\n<li>Wildfire in Arizona &#8211; June 2013<\/li>\n<li>Colorado Record Flooding &#8211; September 2013<\/li>\n<li>Detroit Flooding August 2014<\/li>\n<li>Calbuco Eruption, Chile &#8211; April 2015<\/li>\n<li>CRP 12 UTC 10\/30\/2015 &#8211; Record TX Rainfall<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the highlights of my undergraduate synoptic meteorology course at Oklahoma was the first three weeks &#8212; the &#8220;all-star soundings,&#8221; our individual presentations of notable weather events which had classic signatures on the Skew-T diagram.\u00a0 Dr. Kenneth Crawford was one of the best teachers I ever had, and I loved this part of his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/the-all-star-soundings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The &#8220;All-Star Soundings&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}