MODEL GRIDDED SOUNDING PLOTTING (Ver 5.52-LINUX-X11) Current filename: /home/data/models/gfs/2508270000F018.gfs Reading from grid file:/home/data/models/gfs/2508270000F018.gfs Searching the city database file for: KASE ... Searching file for grids... VAR_make_datatype: no ltype: 10 VAR_make_datatype: no ltype: 10 Date: 18 hour GFS valid 18Z WED 27 AUG 25 Station: KASE Latitude: 39.22 Longitude: -106.87 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 162 1 950 598 2 900 1057 3 850 1542 4 800 2056 5 750 2602 SFC 710 3063 15.3 4.8 49 10.5 8.9 247 6 318.1 319.6 294.8 342.2 7.59 7 700 3182 12.2 4.1 58 8.0 7.4 242 7 316.0 317.4 294.1 339.2 7.38 8 650 3797 6.2 2.1 75 4.1 3.9 241 9 316.0 317.4 293.7 337.8 6.88 9 600 4447 0.5 -0.7 92 1.2 -0.1 246 11 316.7 317.9 293.3 336.1 6.09 10 550 5141 -3.5 -7.7 73 4.2 -5.4 254 18 319.9 320.6 292.4 332.6 3.89 11 500 5888 -7.8 -14.7 58 6.9 -10.4 251 22 323.5 324.0 292.2 331.8 2.45 12 450 6700 -12.4 -23.2 40 10.8 -15.5 244 24 327.7 327.9 292.3 332.3 1.32 13 400 7590 -18.2 -28.9 38 10.7 -20.7 244 25 331.4 331.5 292.9 334.6 0.88 14 350 8573 -25.2 -33.2 47 8.1 -26.6 247 29 334.8 335.0 293.6 337.3 0.66 15 300 9677 -32.2 -50.9 14 18.7 -33.8 247 30 340.0 340.0 294.4 340.5 0.12 16 250 10939 -40.6 -62.5 8 22.0 -41.5 260 53 345.8 345.8 295.7 345.9 0.03 17 200 12424 -51.0 -68.9 10 17.9 -51.4 251 49 352.0 352.1 297.1 352.1 0.02 18 150 14247 -62.1 -79.8 8 17.7 -62.3 266 42 363.0 363.0 299.3 363.0 0.00 19 100 16695 -68.5 -82.0 13 13.6 -68.5 262 8 395.4 395.4 304.6 395.5 0.00 TRP 0 WND 0 Sounding variables and indices 1000-500 mb thick: 5725.95 m Freezing level: 593.53 mb = 4536.76 m = 14884.20 ft Wetbulb zero: 601.22 mb = 4430.42 m = 14535.31 ft Sfc-500 mean rel hum: 73.35 % Est. max temperature: 16.30 C = 61.33 F Sfc-Lift cond lev (LCL): 605.91 mb = 4367.30 m = 14328.24 ft T: 1.23 C 700-500 lapse rate: 7.37 C/km ThetaE index: 10.40 C Layer 700.0- 450.0 mb Conv cond level (CCL): 605.86 mb = 4368.03 m = 14330.62 ft Mean mixing ratio: 6.93 g/kg Conv temperature: 13.96 C = 57.13 F Cap Strength: 0.33 C Lifted Index: -0.19 C Risk: Thunderstorms probable Lifted Index @300 mb: 3.06 C Lifted Index @700 mb: -0.25 C Parcel Indices Parcel: using 100 mb layer CAPE (B+): 19.92 J/kg Max Up Vert Vel: 6.31 m/s Conv Inhibition (B-): 4.97 J/kg Cap Strength: 1.72 C Lift Cond Lev (LCL): 609.35 mb = 4321.38 m = 14177.57 ft Lev Free Conv (LFC): 594.35 mb = 4522.38 m = 14837.01 ft Equ Level (EL): 474.35 mb = 6294.04 m = 20649.49 ft B at Equ Level: 19.75 J/kg Max Parcel Lev (MPL): 394.35 mb = 7694.64 m = 25244.56 ft Wind Parameters Mean winds (0-6000m): 246.7 at 20.1 knts Storm direction: 276.7 at 15.0 knts Shear (0-3000m) pos: 1.7 neg: 1.3 tot: 2.9 10-3/s Storm rel Dir Shear (0-3000m): 99.2 deg Storm rel helicity (0-3000m) pos: 30.2 neg: -0.1 tot: 30.1 m^2/s^2 ave: 10.0 10^-3 m/s^2 rel: 0.79 Storm rel vorticity (0-3000m) horiz: 3.0 stream: 2.4 10^-3/s Energy-Hel index: 0.00 Bulk Rich Number: 0.89 Bulk Shear: 22.34 m/s