MODEL GRIDDED SOUNDING PLOTTING (Ver 5.52-LINUX-X11) Current filename: /home/data/models/nam_218/2508290000F000.nam218 Reading from grid file:/home/data/models/nam_218/2508290000F000.nam218 Searching the city database file for: KIOW ... Searching file for grids... Date: NAM analysis for 0000Z 29 AUG 25 Station: KIOW Latitude: 41.63 Longitude: -91.55 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 156 SFC 992 223 25.0 20.1 74 4.9 21.6 26 2 298.8 301.6 295.0 342.9 15.13 2 950 606 23.0 15.4 62 7.7 17.9 8 5 300.6 302.7 293.0 334.7 11.62 3 900 1074 18.5 13.2 71 5.3 15.1 6 5 300.6 302.5 292.2 331.9 10.66 4 850 1561 13.9 11.1 83 2.8 12.1 2 5 300.7 302.5 291.6 329.7 9.82 5 800 2069 9.9 5.8 75 4.1 7.6 349 8 301.7 303.1 289.8 323.4 7.25 6 750 2603 7.1 1.9 69 5.2 4.3 340 9 304.2 305.3 289.3 321.9 5.84 7 700 3166 2.9 -0.3 79 3.2 1.3 335 10 305.7 306.7 289.4 322.1 5.37 8 650 3763 0.5 -11.6 40 12.0 -4.3 338 11 309.5 309.9 287.8 317.2 2.42 9 600 4402 -1.7 -19.6 24 17.9 -7.5 346 14 314.2 314.4 288.3 318.7 1.35 10 550 5090 -3.8 -34.3 7 30.5 -10.8 342 21 319.6 319.7 289.0 321.0 0.38 11 500 5836 -8.3 -36.8 8 28.5 -14.2 337 23 322.9 322.9 290.0 324.1 0.33 12 450 6643 -14.5 -41.6 8 27.1 -18.9 334 26 325.0 325.1 290.5 325.9 0.22 13 400 7523 -21.3 -45.0 10 23.6 -24.4 334 30 327.2 327.3 291.1 327.9 0.17 14 350 8491 -29.0 -49.5 12 20.5 -30.9 334 30 329.7 329.7 291.7 330.1 0.12 15 300 9575 -37.3 -57.1 11 19.8 -38.3 331 31 332.9 332.9 292.6 333.1 0.06 16 250 10807 -47.8 -60.5 22 12.6 -48.3 318 31 334.9 334.9 293.1 335.1 0.04 17 200 12240 -57.8 -66.1 34 8.3 -58.0 319 45 341.2 341.2 294.6 341.3 0.03 18 150 14049 -59.2 -82.4 3 23.2 -59.5 318 56 368.0 368.0 300.2 368.0 0.00 19 100 16570 -61.5 -88.5 2 27.0 -61.7 324 33 409.0 409.0 306.4 409.0 0.00 TRP 0 WND 0 Sounding variables and indices 1000-500 mb thick: 5680.41 m Freezing level: 639.32 mb = 3899.34 m = 12792.96 ft Wetbulb zero: 688.31 mb = 3301.65 m = 10832.05 ft Precipitable water: 1.21 inches Sfc-500 mean rel hum: 50.60 % Est. max temperature: 27.08 C = 80.74 F Sfc-Lift cond lev (LCL): 924.33 mb = 843.04 m = 2765.84 ft T: 20.74 C 700-500 lapse rate: 4.23 C/km ThetaE index: 20.96 C Layer 950.0- 700.0 mb Conv cond level (CCL): 852.93 mb = 1531.50 m = 5024.56 ft Mean mixing ratio: 12.02 g/kg Conv temperature: 26.92 C = 80.46 F Cap Strength: 0.48 C Lifted Index: 0.37 C Risk: Showers probable Lifted Index @300 mb: -0.41 C Lifted Index @700 mb: -3.28 C Showalter Index: 3.07 C Risk: None Total Totals Index: 41.72 C Risk: None Vertical Totals Index: 22.26 C Cross Totals Index: 19.46 C K Index: 30.17 Risk: 60-80 % chance of thunderstorms Sweat Index: 165.67 Risk: None Energy Index: -1.06 Risk: Scattered severe thunderstorms Parcel Indices Parcel: using 100 mb layer CAPE (B+): 360.09 J/kg Max Up Vert Vel: 26.84 m/s Conv Inhibition (B-): 11.87 J/kg Cap Strength: 0.48 C Lift Cond Lev (LCL): 859.51 mb = 1466.00 m = 4809.67 ft Lev Free Conv (LFC): 844.51 mb = 1615.07 m = 5298.73 ft Equ Level (EL): 554.51 mb = 5025.52 m = 16487.72 ft B at Equ Level: 227.11 J/kg Max Parcel Lev (MPL): 174.51 mb = 13096.98 m = 42968.57 ft Wind Parameters Mean winds (0-6000m): 342.7 at 11.9 knts Storm direction: 12.7 at 8.9 knts Shear (0-3000m) pos: 0.0 neg: 1.5 tot: 1.5 10-3/s Storm rel Dir Shear (0-3000m): 82.2 deg Storm rel helicity (0-3000m) pos: 6.2 neg: -0.0 tot: 6.1 m^2/s^2 ave: 2.0 10^-3 m/s^2 rel: 0.57 Storm rel vorticity (0-3000m) horiz: 1.7 stream: 1.0 10^-3/s Energy-Hel index: 0.01 Bulk Rich Number: 35.03 Bulk Shear: 10.28 m/s