MODEL GRIDDED SOUNDING PLOTTING (Ver 5.52-LINUX-X11) Current filename: /mnt/nfs/atlas/nest_data/2506041200F008.namnest.sound Reading from grid file:/mnt/nfs/atlas/nest_data/2506041200F008.namnest.sound Searching the city database file for: KFCS ... Searching file for grids... Date: 8 hour NAM valid 20Z WED 4 JUN 25 Station: KFCS Latitude: 38.68 Longitude: -104.77 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LEV PRES HGHT TEMP DEWP RH DD WETB DIR SPD THETA THE-V THE-W THE-E W mb m C C % C C deg knt K K K K g/kg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 1000 92 1 950 536 2 900 1001 3 850 1488 SFC 825 1741 13.8 9.7 76 4.1 11.2 169 7 303.1 304.8 291.9 330.5 9.17 5 800 1997 10.2 8.4 88 1.9 9.1 171 8 302.1 303.7 291.1 327.8 8.66 6 750 2531 6.0 5.8 99 0.2 5.9 209 11 303.0 304.5 290.6 326.2 7.73 7 700 3101 8.2 -2.1 48 10.3 2.9 232 5 311.6 312.5 290.7 326.3 4.69 8 650 3708 4.0 -5.6 49 9.7 -0.5 238 2 313.5 314.3 290.5 325.9 3.86 9 600 4352 -1.5 -9.0 57 7.5 -4.7 267 5 314.4 315.1 290.2 324.9 3.24 10 550 5037 -7.2 -18.6 39 11.5 -10.8 260 9 315.6 315.9 289.0 320.9 1.60 11 500 5773 -12.3 -22.1 44 9.8 -15.0 280 14 318.1 318.4 289.5 322.6 1.31 12 450 6569 -17.3 -23.1 61 5.8 -18.8 267 16 321.4 321.7 290.6 326.0 1.32 13 400 7442 -22.6 -27.1 67 4.4 -23.6 263 24 325.6 325.8 291.5 329.2 1.04 14 350 8408 -29.7 -33.9 67 4.2 -30.4 258 35 328.6 328.8 292.0 330.9 0.62 15 300 9487 -38.9 -42.5 68 3.6 -39.2 254 41 330.6 330.7 292.2 331.8 0.30 16 250 10706 -49.7 -53.4 65 3.7 -49.8 250 43 332.3 332.3 292.4 332.7 0.11 17 200 12144 -53.8 -69.4 13 15.6 -54.1 251 62 347.5 347.5 296.1 347.6 0.02 18 150 13973 -58.6 -78.2 6 19.6 -58.9 254 52 369.0 369.0 300.4 369.1 0.01 19 100 16504 -61.2 -88.3 2 27.1 -61.5 247 38 409.4 409.4 306.5 409.4 0.00 TRP 0 WND 0 Sounding variables and indices 1000-500 mb thick: 5680.93 m Freezing level: 613.20 mb = 4182.10 m = 13720.65 ft Wetbulb zero: 657.34 mb = 3615.90 m = 11863.04 ft Sfc-500 mean rel hum: 59.13 % Est. max temperature: 22.67 C = 72.81 F Sfc-Lift cond lev (LCL): 775.54 mb = 2254.08 m = 7395.17 ft T: 8.18 C 700-500 lapse rate: 7.67 C/km ThetaE index: 4.31 C Layer 800.0- 700.0 mb Conv cond level (CCL): 755.18 mb = 2473.98 m = 8116.62 ft Mean mixing ratio: 8.02 g/kg Conv temperature: 13.56 C = 56.41 F Cap Strength: 4.95 C Lifted Index: 0.33 C Risk: Showers probable Lifted Index @300 mb: 3.22 C Lifted Index @700 mb: 4.95 C Parcel Indices Parcel: using 100 mb layer CAPE (B+): 17.34 J/kg Max Up Vert Vel: 5.89 m/s Conv Inhibition (B-): 6494.24 J/kg Cap Strength: 4.82 C Lift Cond Lev (LCL): 751.93 mb = 2509.55 m = 8233.32 ft Lev Free Conv (LFC): -1.00 mb = -9999.00 m = -9999.00 ft Wind Parameters Mean winds (0-6000m): 257.2 at 11.3 knts Storm direction: 287.2 at 8.5 knts Shear (0-3000m) pos: 1.8 neg: 0.0 tot: 1.8 10-3/s Storm rel Dir Shear (0-3000m): 33.5 deg Storm rel helicity (0-3000m) pos: 29.8 neg: -13.2 tot: 16.5 m^2/s^2 ave: 5.5 10^-3 m/s^2 rel: 0.19 Storm rel vorticity (0-3000m) horiz: 4.0 stream: 0.8 10^-3/s Energy-Hel index: 0.00 Bulk Rich Number: 0.79 Bulk Shear: 21.93 m/s