UPPER AIR CALCULATIONS AND PLOTTING (Ver 5.52-LINUX-X11) Current filename: /home/data/upa/2025042800.upa.cvt Date: 0000Z 28 APR 25 Searching for KGSO... Searching the city database file for: KGSO ... Date:0000Z 28 APR 25 Station: KGSO WMO ident: 72317 Latitude: 36.08 Longitude: -79.95 Elevation: 270.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 1000 182 SFC 989 270 20.6 0.6 26 20.0 10.4 30 4 294.7 295.4 284.0 306.6 4.04 2 925 848 14.2 -1.8 33 16.0 6.6 20 3 293.8 294.5 283.2 304.5 3.62 3 914 949 13.4 -1.6 35 15.0 6.2 14 5 294.0 294.7 283.4 305.0 3.72 4 898 1097 12.6 -3.4 33 16.0 5.2 4 7 294.7 295.3 283.2 304.5 3.31 5 866 1401 10.2 -3.8 37 14.0 3.8 345 12 295.3 295.9 283.5 305.2 3.33 6 851 1546 9.8 -6.2 32 16.0 2.9 336 15 296.3 296.8 283.3 304.8 2.82 7 850 1556 9.8 -7.2 29 17.0 2.6 335 15 296.4 296.9 283.1 304.3 2.62 8 825 1802 8.4 -23.6 8 32.0 -1.1 333 15 297.5 297.6 281.2 299.7 0.69 9 813 1923 9.0 333 15 299.4 10 802 2036 9.2 332 15 300.7 11 791 2150 9.4 331 15 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TRP 173 12968 -63.3 -74.3 21 11.0 -63.4 290 65 346.6 346.6 295.9 346.6 0.01 WND 178 12793 -62.7 -73.3 23 10.6 -62.8 290 70 344.8 344.8 295.5 344.9 0.01 Sounding variables and indices 1000-500 mb thick: 5598.00 m Freezing level: 660.40 mb = 3617.76 m = 11869.13 ft Wetbulb zero: 832.41 mb = 1728.64 m = 5671.31 ft Precipitable water: 0.38 inches Sfc-500 mean rel hum: 28.03 % Est. max temperature: 22.79 C = 73.02 F Sfc-Lift cond lev (LCL): 733.35 mb = 2769.22 m = 9085.26 ft T: 5.67 C 700-500 lapse rate: 6.73 C/km ThetaE index: 5.47 C Layer 851.0- 813.0 mb Conv cond level (CCL): 571.30 mb = 4758.52 m = 15611.74 ft Mean mixing ratio: 3.71 g/kg Conv temperature: 37.22 C = 98.99 F Cap Strength: 10.88 C Lifted Index: 10.91 C Risk: None Lifted Index @300 mb: 15.09 C Lifted Index @700 mb: 9.74 C Showalter Index: 11.50 C Risk: None Total Totals Index: 31.60 C Risk: None Vertical Totals Index: 24.30 C Cross Totals Index: 7.30 C K Index: -9.83 Risk: None Sweat Index: 51.00 Risk: None Energy Index: 2.78 Risk: None Parcel Indices Parcel: using 100 mb layer CAPE (B+): 1.63 J/kg Max Up Vert Vel: 1.80 m/s Conv Inhibition (B-): 56068.40 J/kg Cap Strength: 10.87 C Lift Cond Lev (LCL): 724.58 mb = 2867.39 m = 9407.32 ft Lev Free Conv (LFC): -1.00 mb = -9999.00 m = -9999.00 ft Wind level data Storm motion: 341 at 11 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- 0 989 270 30 4 -2.0 -3.5 | 143 9 -5.6 7.4 1 925 848 20 3 -1.0 -2.8 | 150 9 -4.7 8.0 2 850 1556 335 15 6.3 -13.6 | 315 4 2.7 -2.7 3 700 3149 325 15 8.6 -12.3 | 286 5 5.0 -1.4 4 500 5780 285 21 20.3 -5.4 | 252 18 16.6 5.4 5 400 7440 310 33 25.3 -21.2 | 296 24 21.6 -10.3 6 300 9450 300 49 42.4 -24.5 | 289 41 38.8 -13.6 7 250 10660 290 58 54.5 -19.8 | 280 52 50.9 -9.0 8 200 12070 300 61 52.8 -30.5 | 292 53 49.2 -19.6 9 178 12793 290 70 65.8 -23.9 | 282 64 62.1 -13.1 10 173 12968 290 65 61.1 -22.2 | 281 59 57.4 -11.4 11 150 13850 305 42 34.4 -24.1 | 293 33 30.8 -13.2 12 100 16360 300 37 32.0 -18.5 | 285 29 28.4 -7.6 13 89 17069 295 44 39.9 -18.6 | 282 37 36.2 -7.7 14 85 17374 310 43 32.9 -27.6 | 300 34 29.3 -16.8 15 77 17983 325 33 18.9 -27.0 | 317 22 15.3 -16.2 16 73 18288 290 26 24.4 -8.9 | 265 21 20.8 2.0 17 70 18560 325 30 17.2 -24.6 | 315 19 13.6 -13.7 18 70 18593 305 31 25.4 -17.8 | 288 23 21.8 -6.9 19 60 19507 310 17 13.0 -10.9 | 270 9 9.4 -0.1 20 57 19812 300 22 19.1 -11.0 | 271 15 15.4 -0.1 21 52 20422 335 10 4.2 -9.1 | 198 2 0.6 1.8 22 50 20640 315 15 10.6 -10.6 | 268 7 7.0 0.3 23 47 21031 315 15 10.6 -10.6 | 268 7 7.0 0.3 24 45 21336 20 5 -1.7 -4.7 | 139 8 -5.3 6.2 25 41 21946 280 7 6.9 -1.2 | 199 10 3.3 9.6 26 37 22555 240 10 8.7 5.0 | 198 17 5.0 15.9 27 35 22860 305 10 8.2 -5.7 | 222 7 4.6 5.1 28 32 23470 310 8 6.1 -5.1 | 204 6 2.5 5.7 29 30 23774 335 14 5.9 -12.7 | 309 3 2.3 -1.8 30 30 23850 345 16 4.1 -15.5 | 354 5 0.5 -4.6 31 28 24384 345 10 2.6 -9.7 | 139 2 -1.0 1.2 32 25 24994 15 5 -1.3 -4.8 | 141 8 -4.9 6.0 33 24 25298 15 8 -2.1 -7.7 | 119 7 -5.7 3.1 34 21 26213 25 5 -2.1 -4.5 | 138 9 -5.7 6.3 35 20 26460 230 7 5.4 4.5 | 186 15 1.7 15.4 36 20 26518 105 3 -2.9 0.8 | 151 13 -6.5 11.6 37 17 27127 215 5 2.9 4.1 | 177 15 -0.8 15.0 38 15 27432 250 15 14.1 5.1 | 213 19 10.5 16.0 39 13 28042 260 17 16.7 3.0 | 223 19 13.1 13.8 40 11 28651 250 10 9.4 3.4 | 202 15 5.8 14.3 41 8 29566 240 9 7.8 4.5 | 195 16 4.2 15.4 42 8 29870 265 13 13.0 1.1 | 218 15 9.3 12.0 Wind Parameters Mean winds (0-6000m): 311.5 at 15.3 knts Storm direction: 341.5 at 11.5 knts Shear (0-3000m) pos: 0.0 neg: 2.4 tot: 2.4 10-3/s Storm rel Dir Shear (0-3000m): 141.1 deg Storm rel helicity (0-3000m) pos: 2.5 neg: -10.8 tot: -8.4 m^2/s^2 ave: -2.8 10^-3 m/s^2 rel: -0.55 Storm rel vorticity (0-3000m) horiz: 3.2 stream: -1.8 10^-3/s Energy-Hel index: 0.00 Bulk Rich Number: 0.06 Bulk Shear: 28.81 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 26 4 146 9| 0.0 1.0 1.0| 2.5 0.0 2.5 5.0 0.99| 1.0 1.0 1000 10 5 144 8| 0.0 3.8 3.8| 2.5 -6.0 -3.5 -3.5 -0.32| 4.5 -1.5 1500 347 8 150 4| 0.0 4.5 4.5| 2.5 -8.3 -5.8 -3.9 -0.52| 5.4 -2.8 2000 341 10 164 2| 0.0 3.5 3.5| 2.5 -9.1 -6.6 -3.3 -0.53| 4.3 -2.3 2500 337 11 205 1| 0.0 2.8 2.8| 2.5 -9.9 -7.4 -3.0 -0.55| 3.6 -2.0 3000 335 11 248 1| 0.0 2.4 2.4| 2.5 -10.8 -8.4 -2.8 -0.55| 3.2 -1.8 4000 328 13 268 3| 0.0 2.2 2.2| 2.5 -15.0 -12.5 -3.1 -0.52| 3.0 -1.6 5000 320 14 268 5| 0.0 2.1 2.1| 2.5 -23.7 -21.2 -4.2 -0.51| 3.0 -1.5 6000 311 15 265 8| 0.4 1.9 2.3| 23.2 -30.6 -7.4 -1.2 -0.33| 3.1 -1.0 Wrote GIF file: 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