MODEL GRIDDED SOUNDING PLOTTING (Ver 5.52-LINUX-X11) Current filename: /home/data/models/nam_218/2508161200F084.nam218 Reading from grid file:/home/data/models/nam_218/2508161200F084.nam218 Searching file for grids... Date: 3.5 day NAM valid 0Z WED 20 AUG 25 Station: 29.8,-72.6 Latitude: 29.80 Longitude: -72.60 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -359 SFC 960 1 28.6 28.1 97 0.5 28.2 327 46 305.2 310.0 302.6 382.6 25.60 2 950 96 27.1 26.9 99 0.2 27.0 330 57 304.7 309.1 301.8 377.1 24.07 3 900 575 24.5 24.4 99 0.1 24.5 347 64 306.8 310.9 301.1 373.1 21.91 4 850 1077 23.1 23.0 99 0.1 23.0 344 47 310.3 314.4 301.5 375.3 21.18 5 800 1608 21.3 21.0 98 0.3 21.1 334 47 313.8 317.6 301.5 375.7 19.94 6 750 2168 19.2 18.3 94 0.9 18.6 334 53 317.5 320.9 301.2 373.9 17.95 7 700 2761 16.3 15.7 96 0.6 15.8 340 56 320.5 323.7 300.9 372.0 16.22 8 650 3391 13.2 12.8 98 0.4 12.9 344 54 323.9 326.7 300.7 370.5 14.48 9 600 4063 10.0 9.3 95 0.7 9.5 345 50 327.7 330.1 300.2 368.0 12.35 10 550 4785 6.4 5.5 93 1.0 5.8 345 45 331.7 333.8 299.8 366.1 10.34 11 500 5564 3.5 1.6 88 1.8 2.4 347 40 337.3 339.0 299.9 366.7 8.67 12 450 6414 -1.1 -2.6 89 1.6 -2.0 348 36 341.9 343.3 299.9 366.3 7.03 13 400 7346 -5.7 -8.8 79 3.0 -7.3 350 32 347.5 348.6 299.7 365.2 4.94 14 350 8385 -10.1 -23.0 34 12.9 -14.7 350 30 355.1 355.5 299.0 361.7 1.71 15 300 9556 -18.6 -41.8 11 23.2 -23.0 349 23 359.2 359.3 298.8 360.6 0.33 16 250 10883 -30.3 -47.9 16 17.5 -32.4 352 17 361.0 361.0 299.1 361.8 0.20 17 200 12426 -43.0 -49.7 48 6.7 -43.5 331 15 364.6 364.7 299.8 365.5 0.20 18 150 14292 -59.5 -70.7 22 11.2 -59.7 7 7 367.5 367.5 300.1 367.6 0.02 19 100 16717 -74.8 -83.5 25 8.6 -74.9 68 7 383.1 383.1 302.8 383.1 0.00 TRP 0 WND 0 Sounding variables and indices 1000-500 mb thick: 5922.20 m Freezing level: 461.88 mb = 6211.96 m = 20380.19 ft Wetbulb zero: 472.74 mb = 6016.09 m = 19737.58 ft Precipitable water: 3.41 inches Sfc-500 mean rel hum: 96.01 % Est. max temperature: 36.32 C = 97.38 F Sfc-Lift cond lev (LCL): 954.18 mb = 56.73 m = 186.12 ft T: 27.68 C 700-500 lapse rate: 4.56 C/km ThetaE index: 9.65 C Layer 750.0- 500.0 mb Conv cond level (CCL): 913.67 mb = 441.04 m = 1446.97 ft Mean mixing ratio: 22.61 g/kg Conv temperature: 29.51 C = 85.13 F Cap Strength: 0.41 C Lifted Index: -1.18 C Risk: Thunderstorms probable Lifted Index @300 mb: -1.94 C Lifted Index @700 mb: -0.29 C Showalter Index: -1.18 C Risk: Thunderstorms probable Total Totals Index: 39.13 C Risk: None Vertical Totals Index: 19.64 C Cross Totals Index: 19.49 C K Index: 42.02 Risk: > 80 % chance of thunderstorms Sweat Index: 408.44 Risk: Severe Thunderstorms possible Energy Index: -1.75 Risk: Scattered severe thunderstorms Parcel Indices Parcel: using 100 mb layer CAPE (B+): 1304.12 J/kg Max Up Vert Vel: 51.07 m/s Conv Inhibition (B-): 0.00 J/kg Cap Strength: 0.37 C Lift Cond Lev (LCL): 908.19 mb = 494.36 m = 1621.88 ft Lev Free Conv (LFC): 903.19 mb = 543.27 m = 1782.38 ft Equ Level (EL): 853.19 mb = 1044.53 m = 3426.89 ft B at Equ Level: 22.38 J/kg Wind Parameters Mean winds (0-6000m): 341.8 at 50.0 knts Storm direction: 11.8 at 37.5 knts Shear (0-3000m) pos: 5.3 neg: 2.6 tot: 7.9 10-3/s Storm rel Dir Shear (0-3000m): 28.4 deg Storm rel helicity (0-3000m) pos: 350.8 neg: -119.3 tot: 231.4 m^2/s^2 ave: 77.1 10^-3 m/s^2 rel: 0.33 Storm rel vorticity (0-3000m) horiz: 11.6 stream: 3.8 10^-3/s Energy-Hel index: 2.28 Bulk Rich Number: 99.17 Bulk Shear: 13.15 m/s