UPPER AIR CALCULATIONS AND PLOTTING (Ver 5.52-LINUX-X11) Current filename: /home/data/upa/2025060923.upa.cvt Date: 2300Z 9 JUN 25 Searching for FAPE... Searching the city database file for: FAPE ... Date:2300Z 9 JUN 25 Station: FAPE WMO ident: 68842 Latitude: -33.98 Longitude: 25.60 Elevation: 60.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 1015 60 15.2 13.7 91 1.5 14.3 170 7 287.1 288.8 286.8 314.3 9.75 1 1000 183 15.8 12.8 82 3.0 14.0 190 22 289.0 290.6 287.1 315.1 9.32 2 993 243 15.6 12.4 81 3.2 13.7 188 26 289.3 290.9 287.1 315.0 9.14 3 925 840 10.8 10.8 100 0.0 10.8 180 35 290.4 291.9 287.2 315.3 8.82 4 900 1068 8.8 8.8 100 0.0 8.8 178 35 290.6 292.0 286.4 313.0 7.92 5 850 1541 6.8 6.8 100 0.0 6.8 170 34 293.3 294.6 286.8 314.3 7.31 6 814 1895 5.2 5.2 100 0.0 5.2 167 33 295.2 296.5 287.1 315.1 6.83 7 789 2148 3.2 0.6 83 2.6 1.9 165 33 295.7 296.6 285.5 310.6 5.07 8 744 2621 0.0 0.0 100 0.0 0.0 297.3 298.2 286.2 312.5 5.14 TRP WND Sounding variables and indices Precipitable water: 0.81 inches Sfc-500 mean rel hum: 94.34 % Est. max temperature: 20.54 C = 68.98 F Sfc-Lift cond lev (LCL): 992.73 mb = 244.95 m = 803.62 ft T: 15.58 C ThetaE index: 4.43 C Layer 789.0- 744.0 mb Conv cond level (CCL): 931.51 mb = 780.97 m = 2562.20 ft Mean mixing ratio: 9.04 g/kg Conv temperature: 18.34 C = 65.02 F Cap Strength: 0.51 C Parcel Indices Parcel: using 100 mb layer CAPE (B+): 36.01 J/kg Max Up Vert Vel: 8.49 m/s Conv Inhibition (B-): 3.45 J/kg Cap Strength: 0.51 C Lift Cond Lev (LCL): 940.80 mb = 697.42 m = 2288.08 ft Lev Free Conv (LFC): 915.80 mb = 923.31 m = 3029.19 ft Wind level data Storm motion: 204 at 24 knt ---------------------------------------------------------- TRUE/GROUND REL | STORM REL LEV P H DIR SPD U V | DIR SPD U V mb m knt m/s | knt m/s ---------------------------------------------------------- 0 1015 60 170 7 -1.2 6.9 | 36 19 -11.1 -15.1 1 1000 183 190 22 3.8 21.7 | 87 6 -6.1 -0.3 2 986 305 185 30 2.6 29.9 | 137 11 -7.3 7.9 3 951 610 180 38 0.0 38.0 | 148 19 -9.9 16.0 4 925 840 180 35 0.0 35.0 | 143 16 -9.9 13.0 5 917 914 180 35 0.0 35.0 | 143 16 -9.9 13.0 6 850 1541 170 34 -5.9 33.5 | 126 20 -15.8 11.5 7 790 2134 165 33 -8.5 31.9 | 118 21 -18.4 9.9 8 760 2438 165 24 -6.2 23.2 | 94 16 -16.1 1.2 Wind Parameters Mean winds (0-6000m): 174.3 at 32.1 knts Storm direction: 204.3 at 24.1 knts Shear (0-3000m) pos: 7.7 neg: 2.5 tot: 10.2 10-3/s Storm rel Dir Shear (0-3000m): 57.9 deg Storm rel helicity (0-3000m) pos: 51.0 neg: -72.9 tot: -21.9 m^2/s^2 ave: -9.5 10^-3 m/s^2 rel: 0.11 Storm rel vorticity (0-3000m) horiz: 11.3 stream: 1.2 10^-3/s Energy-Hel index: 0.01 Bulk Rich Number: 5.11 Bulk Shear: 7.05 m/s Storm Parameters ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Depth Mean Inflow| Shear | Helicity | Vorticity AGL Dir Spd Dir Spd| Pos Neg Tot| Pos Neg Tot Ave Rel | Hor Strm m knt knt| 10^-3/s | m^2/s^2 m/s^2 | 10^-3/s ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 500 184 27 121 9| 30.7 0.0 30.7| 51.0 0.0 51.0 101.9 0.65| 32.4 20.9 1000 182 31 136 13| 15.4 1.4 16.8| 51.0 -12.1 38.9 38.9 0.49| 18.6 9.1 1500 179 32 134 15| 10.2 2.5 12.7| 51.0 -31.6 19.3 12.9 0.33| 14.0 4.7 2000 176 33 131 16| 7.7 2.5 10.2| 51.0 -44.1 6.9 3.4 0.26| 11.2 2.9 2500 NO DATA | 7.7 2.5 10.2| | 3000 NO DATA | 7.7 2.5 10.2| | 4000 NO DATA | 7.7 2.5 10.2| | 5000 NO DATA | 7.7 2.5 10.2| | 6000 NO DATA | 7.7 2.5 10.2| | Wrote GIF file: /home/apache/climate/data/raob//FAPE/skewt/FAPE.skewt.20250609.23.gif