MODEL GRIDDED SOUNDING PLOTTING (Ver 5.52-LINUX-X11) Current filename: /home/data/models/gfs/2508260600F123.gfs Reading from grid file:/home/data/models/gfs/2508260600F123.gfs Searching the city database file for: KSGR ... Searching file for grids... VAR_make_datatype: no ltype: 10 VAR_make_datatype: no ltype: 10 Date: 123 hour GFS valid 9Z SUN 31 AUG 25 Station: KSGR Latitude: 29.62 Longitude: -95.65 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SFC 1008 31 24.5 22.7 90 1.7 23.2 6 3 296.9 300.1 296.1 347.6 17.50 1 1000 101 24.4 22.2 88 2.2 22.8 354 3 297.5 300.6 296.0 347.0 17.05 2 950 552 23.3 20.8 86 2.5 21.5 229 8 300.8 303.9 296.5 349.3 16.49 3 900 1023 20.9 18.1 84 2.8 18.9 224 12 303.0 305.7 295.8 346.4 14.66 4 850 1518 19.0 15.8 81 3.3 16.8 248 11 306.1 308.6 295.8 346.3 13.39 5 800 2038 17.0 13.2 78 3.8 14.5 292 13 309.3 311.6 295.7 345.9 12.02 6 750 2587 13.7 10.7 82 3.0 11.7 303 12 311.4 313.5 295.4 344.6 10.82 7 700 3166 9.8 7.9 88 1.9 8.6 303 12 313.4 315.2 295.1 343.1 9.60 8 650 3779 6.3 3.7 84 2.6 4.8 310 11 316.1 317.6 294.4 340.3 7.71 9 600 4433 3.4 -3.5 61 6.9 -0.1 340 10 320.0 321.0 293.3 336.0 4.93 10 550 5134 -0.4 -9.8 49 9.4 -4.6 349 11 323.6 324.2 292.9 334.6 3.30 11 500 5891 -4.5 -13.2 51 8.7 -8.1 347 15 327.6 328.1 293.6 337.0 2.76 12 450 6713 -9.2 -18.9 45 9.8 -12.6 341 17 331.7 332.1 293.9 338.4 1.90 13 400 7614 -15.0 -22.0 55 7.0 -17.2 341 13 335.5 335.8 294.6 341.3 1.64 14 350 8610 -21.9 -30.0 48 8.1 -23.7 326 18 339.2 339.4 295.0 342.6 0.90 15 300 9726 -30.3 -39.2 42 8.8 -31.6 322 20 342.6 342.7 295.3 344.3 0.43 16 250 10995 -40.2 -50.1 34 9.9 -40.9 318 21 346.3 346.4 296.0 347.0 0.16 17 200 12477 -52.5 -54.1 82 1.6 -52.5 308 20 349.7 349.7 296.7 350.2 0.12 18 150 14266 -68.2 -68.5 96 0.3 -68.2 312 26 352.6 352.6 297.2 352.7 0.03 19 100 16651 -75.2 -80.8 41 5.7 -75.2 99 3 382.5 382.5 302.6 382.5 0.01 TRP 0 WND 0 Sounding variables and indices 1000-500 mb thick: 5789.32 m Freezing level: 555.80 mb = 5052.59 m = 16576.53 ft Wetbulb zero: 601.29 mb = 4415.26 m = 14485.59 ft Precipitable water: 2.21 inches Sfc-500 mean rel hum: 74.16 % Est. max temperature: 33.14 C = 91.65 F Sfc-Lift cond lev (LCL): 983.13 mb = 250.62 m = 822.24 ft T: 24.01 C 700-500 lapse rate: 5.26 C/km ThetaE index: 14.74 C Layer 900.0- 500.0 mb Conv cond level (CCL): 842.58 mb = 1592.92 m = 5226.06 ft Mean mixing ratio: 16.36 g/kg Conv temperature: 34.11 C = 93.41 F Cap Strength: 1.96 C Lifted Index: -0.88 C Risk: Thunderstorms probable Lifted Index @300 mb: -0.95 C Lifted Index @700 mb: -0.21 C Showalter Index: -0.18 C Risk: Thunderstorms probable Total Totals Index: 43.82 C Risk: None Vertical Totals Index: 23.54 C Cross Totals Index: 20.28 C K Index: 37.41 Risk: > 80 % chance of thunderstorms Sweat Index: 226.69 Risk: None Energy Index: -1.83 Risk: Scattered severe thunderstorms Parcel Indices Parcel: using 100 mb layer CAPE (B+): 265.31 J/kg Max Up Vert Vel: 23.04 m/s Conv Inhibition (B-): 117.56 J/kg Cap Strength: 1.95 C Lift Cond Lev (LCL): 923.98 mb = 793.81 m = 2604.34 ft Lev Free Conv (LFC): 708.98 mb = 3059.03 m = 10036.08 ft Equ Level (EL): 248.98 mb = 11022.17 m = 36161.52 ft B at Equ Level: 264.80 J/kg Max Parcel Lev (MPL): 138.98 mb = 14715.06 m = 48277.16 ft Wind Parameters Mean winds (0-6000m): 306.0 at 11.1 knts Storm direction: 336.0 at 8.3 knts Shear (0-3000m) pos: 2.6 neg: 2.4 tot: 5.0 10-3/s Storm rel Dir Shear (0-3000m): 117.2 deg Storm rel helicity (0-3000m) pos: 51.3 neg: -4.8 tot: 46.5 m^2/s^2 ave: 15.5 10^-3 m/s^2 rel: 0.51 Storm rel vorticity (0-3000m) horiz: 5.9 stream: 3.0 10^-3/s Energy-Hel index: 0.08 Bulk Rich Number: 28.11 Bulk Shear: 9.44 m/s