Clippers can happen in any ENSO state, I believe. It has just been over a decade since the last one hence my sarcastic "A CLIPPER?" If you look at it again, my statement was not about those but about the kind of outcome that happens with bigger storms in ninas with the NS and SS phasing too late and creating the kind of precip distribution that particular model run showed
...I was not referring to clippers when I said that.