UPPER AIR CALCULATIONS AND PLOTTING (Ver 5.52-LINUX-X11) Current filename: /home/data/upa/2025051700.upa.cvt Date: 0000Z 17 MAY 25 Searching for KWAL... Searching the city database file for: KWAL ... Date:0000Z 17 MAY 25 Station: KWAL WMO ident: 72402 Latitude: 37.93 Longitude: -75.48 Elevation: 41.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 1005 41 24.0 22.3 90 1.7 22.8 205 6 296.7 299.8 295.8 346.1 17.11 1 1001 51 23.8 20.6 82 3.2 21.6 296.9 299.7 294.7 341.4 15.44 2 1000 54 23.4 19.7 80 3.7 20.8 200 10 296.5 299.2 294.0 338.6 14.60 3 993 116 27.2 21.2 70 6.0 22.9 301.0 303.9 296.3 348.5 16.16 4 948 525 25.0 15.0 54 10.0 18.3 302.7 304.8 293.4 336.5 11.38 5 925 740 23.0 15.0 61 8.0 17.7 250 14 302.8 305.0 293.7 337.4 11.67 6 850 1470 16.6 16.1 97 0.5 16.3 255 28 303.5 306.1 295.3 344.1 13.67 7 844 1530 16.2 15.7 97 0.5 15.9 303.7 306.2 295.2 343.6 13.41 8 837 1601 15.6 14.8 95 0.8 15.1 303.8 306.2 294.7 341.7 12.75 9 796 2027 13.0 12.6 97 0.4 12.7 305.4 307.6 294.4 340.2 11.60 10 779 2209 11.8 11.2 96 0.6 11.4 306.0 308.1 293.9 338.5 10.79 11 770 2306 11.2 10.8 97 0.4 10.9 306.4 308.4 293.9 338.4 10.63 12 745 2582 10.4 10.2 99 0.2 10.3 308.5 310.4 294.4 340.5 10.55 13 705 3041 7.6 7.0 96 0.6 7.2 310.3 312.0 293.7 337.7 8.96 14 700 3100 7.2 6.5 95 0.7 6.8 250 28 310.5 312.1 293.6 337.2 8.71 15 645 3771 4.6 4.3 98 0.3 4.4 314.9 316.4 294.4 340.2 8.10 16 626 4013 2.2 1.7 96 0.5 1.9 314.8 316.2 293.4 336.6 6.93 17 577 4670 0.2 0.2 100 0.0 0.2 319.9 321.2 294.7 341.5 6.75 18 500 5810 -4.1 -4.1 100 0.0 -4.1 270 32 328.0 329.2 295.9 346.8 5.66 19 492 5937 -5.3 -5.3 100 0.0 -5.3 328.1 329.1 295.6 345.6 5.25 20 433 6927 -11.5 -11.5 100 0.0 -11.5 332.4 333.2 295.5 345.0 3.67 21 400 7530 -15.3 -15.3 100 0.0 -15.3 270 40 335.1 335.7 295.6 345.3 2.91 22 362 8275 -21.3 -21.4 99 0.1 -21.3 336.8 337.2 295.2 343.6 1.91 23 300 9630 -32.5 -32.7 98 0.2 -32.5 260 14 339.6 339.7 295.0 342.6 0.82 24 263 10540 -43.3 -45.1 82 1.8 -43.4 255 65 336.8 336.8 293.8 337.8 0.26 25 250 10880 -45.9 -47.9 80 2.0 -46.0 245 47 337.8 337.9 294.0 338.6 0.20 26 241 11123 -47.9 242 46 338.4 TRP WND 274 255 64 Sounding variables and indices 1000-500 mb thick: 5756.00 m Freezing level: 573.42 mb = 4722.86 m = 15494.75 ft Wetbulb zero: 573.48 mb = 4718.54 m = 15480.58 ft Precipitable water: 2.26 inches Sfc-500 mean rel hum: 91.45 % Est. max temperature: 30.77 C = 87.39 F Sfc-Lift cond lev (LCL): 980.76 mb = 225.22 m = 738.89 ft T: 26.61 C 700-500 lapse rate: 4.17 C/km ThetaE index: 11.99 C Layer 948.0- 925.0 mb Conv cond level (CCL): 827.55 mb = 1697.67 m = 5569.71 ft Mean mixing ratio: 13.07 g/kg Conv temperature: 31.48 C = 88.66 F Cap Strength: 1.57 C Lifted Index: 2.50 C Risk: None Lifted Index @300 mb: 1.35 C Lifted Index @700 mb: -0.61 C Showalter Index: 1.04 C Risk: Showers probable Total Totals Index: 40.90 C Risk: None Vertical Totals Index: 20.70 C Cross Totals Index: 20.20 C K Index: 36.10 Risk: > 80 % chance of thunderstorms Sweat Index: 281.20 Risk: None Energy Index: 0.35 Risk: None Parcel Indices Parcel: using 100 mb layer CAPE (B+): 71.31 J/kg Max Up Vert Vel: 11.94 m/s Conv Inhibition (B-): 51.04 J/kg Cap Strength: 2.33 C Lift Cond Lev (LCL): 855.97 mb = 1409.61 m = 4624.65 ft Lev Free Conv (LFC): 780.97 mb = 2187.53 m = 7176.86 ft Equ Level (EL): 750.97 mb = 2515.68 m = 8253.44 ft B at Equ Level: 10.55 J/kg Max Parcel Lev (MPL): 520.97 mb = 5483.01 m = 17988.66 ft Wind level data ------------------------------------ TRUE/GROUND REL LEV P H DIR SPD U V mb m knt m/s ------------------------------------ 0 274 10439 255 64 61.8 16.6 1 1005 41 205 6 2.5 5.4 2 1000 54 200 10 3.4 9.4 3 972 305 220 7 4.5 5.4 4 939 610 245 13 11.8 5.5 5 925 740 250 14 13.2 4.8 6 907 914 250 15 14.1 5.1 7 875 1219 250 22 20.7 7.5 8 850 1470 255 28 27.0 7.2 9 845 1524 255 28 27.0 7.2 10 814 1829 260 31 30.5 5.4 11 785 2134 265 31 30.9 2.7 12 757 2438 260 37 36.4 6.4 13 730 2743 265 38 37.9 3.3 14 704 3048 250 28 26.3 9.6 15 700 3100 250 28 26.3 9.6 16 653 3658 300 29 25.1 -14.5 17 629 3962 305 38 31.1 -21.8 18 606 4267 300 29 25.1 -14.5 19 583 4572 280 30 29.5 -5.2 20 561 4877 280 35 34.5 -6.1 21 541 5182 285 36 34.8 -9.3 22 520 5486 290 32 30.1 -10.9 23 501 5791 275 28 27.9 -2.4 24 500 5810 270 32 32.0 -0.0 25 482 6096 270 39 39.0 -0.0 26 463 6401 270 40 40.0 -0.0 27 428 7010 285 43 41.5 -11.1 28 400 7530 270 40 40.0 -0.0 29 395 7620 270 40 40.0 -0.0 30 349 8534 285 34 32.8 -8.8 31 321 9144 270 30 30.0 -0.0 32 300 9630 260 14 13.8 2.4 33 282 10058 235 13 10.6 7.5 34 270 10363 255 64 61.8 16.6 35 258 10668 255 65 62.8 16.8 36 250 10880 245 47 42.6 19.9 37 246 10973 240 47 40.7 23.5 38 235 11278 245 44 39.9 18.6 Wind Parameters Energy-Hel index: -4.46 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 NO DATA | | | 1000 NO DATA | | | 1500 NO DATA | | | 2000 NO DATA | | | 2500 NO DATA | | | 3000 NO DATA | | | 4000 NO DATA | | | 5000 NO DATA | | | 6000 NO DATA | | | Wrote GIF file: /home/apache/climate/data/raob//KWAL/skewt/KWAL.skewt.20250517.00.gif