UPPER AIR CALCULATIONS AND PLOTTING (Ver 5.52-LINUX-X11) Current filename: /home/data/upa/2025042123.upa.cvt Date: 2300Z 21 APR 25 Searching for NGFU... Searching the city database file for: NGFU ... Date:2300Z 21 APR 25 Station: NGFU WMO ident: 91643 Latitude: -8.52 Longitude: 179.22 Elevation: 2.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 1012 2 27.0 25.0 89 2.0 25.5 290 14 299.1 302.8 298.2 357.9 20.08 1 1000 118 25.6 23.4 88 2.2 24.0 290 6 298.8 302.1 297.1 352.5 18.41 2 981 287 24.2 22.7 91 1.5 23.1 313 7 299.0 302.3 297.0 351.5 17.98 3 973 359 24.8 21.5 82 3.3 22.4 323 7 300.3 303.4 296.5 349.6 16.82 4 925 802 22.0 20.7 92 1.3 21.1 25 9 301.8 304.9 297.0 351.5 16.84 5 853 1504 17.6 17.3 98 0.3 17.4 25 8 304.3 307.0 296.2 348.1 14.72 6 850 1534 17.4 16.9 97 0.5 17.1 25 8 304.4 307.0 296.0 347.3 14.40 7 810 1946 15.8 13.7 87 2.1 14.4 24 8 306.9 309.2 295.3 343.8 12.26 8 746 2643 11.6 11.6 100 0.0 11.6 22 9 309.6 311.8 295.5 344.9 11.59 9 700 3174 8.4 7.9 97 0.5 8.1 20 9 311.8 313.6 294.7 341.4 9.60 10 618 4198 3.4 2.9 97 0.5 3.1 61 13 317.4 318.8 294.7 341.6 7.66 11 508 5774 -3.3 -4.2 93 0.9 -3.8 125 20 327.5 328.6 295.7 345.9 5.53 12 500 5900 -4.3 -5.2 93 0.9 -4.8 130 21 327.8 328.8 295.6 345.1 5.20 13 461 6537 -8.1 -8.1 100 0.0 -8.1 132 18 330.8 331.7 295.7 346.0 4.51 14 400 7630 -13.9 -14.9 92 1.0 -14.3 135 12 336.9 337.5 296.1 347.5 3.01 15 362 8382 -18.3 -20.0 86 1.7 -18.8 340.8 341.2 296.3 348.6 2.16 TRP WND Sounding variables and indices 1000-500 mb thick: 5782.00 m Freezing level: 562.18 mb = 4997.90 m = 16397.11 ft Wetbulb zero: 568.28 mb = 4872.54 m = 15985.83 ft Precipitable water: 2.55 inches Sfc-500 mean rel hum: 94.31 % Est. max temperature: 31.85 C = 89.33 F Sfc-Lift cond lev (LCL): 983.53 mb = 264.21 m = 866.83 ft T: 24.39 C 700-500 lapse rate: 4.66 C/km ThetaE index: 8.28 C Layer 1000.0- 925.0 mb Conv cond level (CCL): 906.16 mb = 980.24 m = 3215.96 ft Mean mixing ratio: 17.38 g/kg Conv temperature: 30.33 C = 86.59 F Cap Strength: 1.09 C Lifted Index: -1.86 C Risk: Thunderstorms probable Lifted Index @700 mb: -2.58 C Showalter Index: -0.34 C Risk: Thunderstorms probable Total Totals Index: 42.90 C Risk: None Vertical Totals Index: 21.70 C Cross Totals Index: 21.20 C K Index: 38.10 Risk: > 80 % chance of thunderstorms Sweat Index: 239.80 Risk: None Energy Index: -0.54 Risk: Scattered severe thunderstorms Parcel Indices Parcel: using 100 mb layer CAPE (B+): 480.51 J/kg Max Up Vert Vel: 31.00 m/s Conv Inhibition (B-): 14.76 J/kg Cap Strength: 1.09 C Lift Cond Lev (LCL): 933.24 mb = 724.31 m = 2376.32 ft Lev Free Conv (LFC): 878.24 mb = 1251.20 m = 4104.95 ft Wind level data Storm motion: 99 at 9 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 1012 2 290 14 13.2 -4.8 | 286 23 21.8 -6.1 1 1000 118 290 6 5.6 -2.1 | 283 15 14.3 -3.4 2 925 802 25 9 -3.8 -8.2 | 333 11 4.8 -9.5 3 850 1534 25 8 -3.4 -7.3 | 329 10 5.3 -8.6 4 700 3174 20 9 -3.1 -8.5 | 330 11 5.6 -9.8 5 500 5900 130 21 -16.1 13.5 | 149 14 -7.4 12.2 6 400 7630 135 12 -8.5 8.5 | 181 7 0.2 7.1 Wind Parameters Mean winds (0-6000m): 68.9 at 11.7 knts Storm direction: 98.9 at 8.8 knts Shear (0-3000m) pos: 2.9 neg: 0.1 tot: 3.1 10-3/s Storm rel Dir Shear (0-3000m): 44.5 deg Storm rel helicity (0-3000m) pos: 42.8 neg: -5.3 tot: 37.6 m^2/s^2 ave: 12.5 10^-3 m/s^2 rel: 0.48 Storm rel vorticity (0-3000m) horiz: 3.8 stream: 1.8 10^-3/s Energy-Hel index: 0.13 Bulk Rich Number: 13.20 Bulk Shear: 36.41 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 500 311 8 294 16| 11.6 0.0 11.6| 24.7 -3.1 21.6 43.3 0.42| 14.1 5.9 1000 351 8 313 14| 8.8 0.0 8.8| 42.0 -3.7 38.3 38.3 0.53| 10.4 5.5 1500 6 8 320 12| 5.9 0.2 6.1| 42.0 -5.2 36.7 24.5 0.49| 7.2 3.5 2000 11 8 323 12| 4.4 0.1 4.5| 42.2 -5.3 37.0 18.5 0.49| 5.5 2.7 2500 14 8 324 11| 3.5 0.1 3.6| 42.5 -5.3 37.3 14.9 0.48| 4.4 2.1 3000 16 8 326 11| 2.9 0.1 3.1| 42.8 -5.3 37.6 12.5 0.48| 3.8 1.8 4000 22 9 331 11| 3.1 0.1 3.2| 61.5 -5.3 56.3 14.1 0.60| 3.8 2.2 5000 40 10 347 9| 3.2 0.1 3.3| 85.5 -5.3 80.2 16.0 0.70| 4.2 2.9 6000 69 12 22 6| 3.0 0.1 3.0|118.6 -5.3 113.3 18.9 0.74| 4.6 3.4 Wrote GIF file: /home/apache/climate/data/raob//NGFU/skewt/NGFU.skewt.20250421.23.gif